There are believed to have been several versions, with the one widely in use today, featuring 20 chapters, compiled by a scholar during the Western Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 24).

More than 300 years later, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), who ruled a unified country of vast territory, supported Confucian thought, with Confucius' teachings as its key exemplar ...

Emperor Han Wudi was an emperor of the Han dynasty and ruled from 141 B.C. to 87 B.C. He established the ancient Chinese philosophy known as Confucianism as the empire's main ideology.

It took about three hundred years, but eventually, under the Han Dynasty, the Chinese government turned pro-Confucius, especially under the Emperor Wu starting in the 130s BCE. Wu was quite the ...

Later on, the Han dynasty formally adopted Confucian doctrine and promoted it as the moral foundation for all human conduct, even though there was a great diffusion of Buddhism and Taoism.

Read something in the mainstream press and Confucianism will likely be linked to any or all of the following situations: the crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214, the reason young Korean children ...

Taoism fell out of favor with the ruling class during the Qing dynasty (1636–1911), when the emperors espoused Confucianism and Buddhism. Starting in the late 19th century, intellectuals, political ...