Collective remembering of Confucianism in Chinese language textbooks: Official historical representations from 1949 to 2019

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dc.citation.volume15
dc.contributor.authorXie T
dc.contributor.authorChen S
dc.contributor.authorWang D
dc.contributor.authorLiu JH
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-20T01:02:48Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-25T06:45:45Z
dc.date.available2023-11-20T01:02:48Z
dc.date.available2024-07-25T06:45:45Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis study focuses on the collective remembering of an ancient system of meaning, examining content and changes in the construction of Confucianism in Chinese textbooks. The data consists of 84 editions of Chinese language teaching textbooks published by the People’s Education Press from 1949 to 2019. Content analysis shows that Confucianism is and was barely represented in this corpus. Thematic analysis shows that: (i) Only Confucius and Mencius were recognized as Confucian masters. (ii) Representations of Confucianism in the textbooks come from The Analects, Mencius, The Book of Rites, and The Book of Poetry, all of which are more than 2000 years old. (iii) Except for the 1970s, Confucianism was represented in a positive or at least neutral way. (iv) Confucianism is represented in a distant, abstract, decontextualized, and apolitical way, disconnected from students’ daily life. This gives insight into how a core representation stripped of its peripheral elements can lose meaning, and lose its normative influence on behavior. Contributions to collective memory, and implications for how to edit Chinese language textbooks to be more engaging are discussed.
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dc.identifier.citationXie T, Chen S, Wang D, Liu JH. (2021). Collective remembering of Confucianism in Chinese language textbooks: Official historical representations from 1949 to 2019. Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology. 15.
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1834490921993511
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.issn1834-4909
dc.identifier.numberARTN 1834490921993511
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/70822
dc.publisherSAGE Publishing
dc.relation.isPartOfJournal of Pacific Rim Psychology
dc.rightsCC BY-NC 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectcollective remembering
dc.subjectsocial representations
dc.subjectcultural memory
dc.subjectConfucianism
dc.subjectcontent analysis
dc.subjectthematic analysis
dc.titleCollective remembering of Confucianism in Chinese language textbooks: Official historical representations from 1949 to 2019
dc.typeJournal article
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