Read Julia Murray’s The Sages New Clothes: Popular Images of Confucius in Contemporary China from Hammond and Richey’s The Sage Returns: Confucian Revival in Contemporary China.
Watching the video clip of a modern depiction of Confucius or Confucianism. Referring to at least some of the ideas in Murray’s “Sage’s New Clothes,” citing appropriately, and describe how the depiction you choose compares with early (pre-Qin) Confucianism. How does this depiction express modern notions of the importance and meaning of Confucius’s teachings?
