TY - JOUR AU - Chan, Kin-man PY - 2016/03/27 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Moral Crisis and Confucian Resurrection: New Three-Word Classic in China / Crisis moral y resurrección del confucionismo: nuevo Clásico de las Tres Palabras en China JF - Araucaria JA - AR VL - 18 IS - 35 SE - Monográfico I DO - UR - https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/araucaria/article/view/2667 SP - AB - The transition from state socialism to market socialism in China since 1978 ledto a sense of disorientation and moral crisis in the Chinese population which by themid-1990s the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) attempted to correct. Specifically,the CCP Committee in the region of Guangdong responded by elaborating a newversion of the teaching manual Three-Word Classic in order to meet the new social circumstances with a body of specific moral rules based on Confucian philosophyand aimed at the Chinese younger generations. The Party’s chief goal was to rebuildthe framework of moral behavior ousted by the rapid social changes of the 80sand 90s and which until the reform era was supplied by the official line of theCCP and the ideas nurtured during the Cultural Revolution. The New Three-WordClassic soon became widely popular in the country and allowed schools to teachtheir students a series of moral rules through the examples of historical figures andevents which overall championed patriotism and diligence in learning but failed toaddress public spiritedness, essential in guiding emerging public life in China. ER -