Influence Of Confucian Culture Research Articles

Confucian culture and technological innovation: the long-term impact of informal institutions on regional progress in China

ABSTRACT Culture as an informal institution plays an important role in technological progress. Despite being a crucial informal institution in China, the influence of Confucian culture on technological innovation has been largely overlooked. This study uses Confucian academies data from the Tang to Qing Dynasties (618–1911) and Chinese city patent data from 2000 to 2017 to examine the long-term impact of Confucian traditional culture on regional technological innovation levels from an informal institutional perspective. The study finds that Confucian culture enhances regional technological innovation. In terms of influence channels, Confucian culture directly and indirectly exerts a positive long-term influence on the level of regional technological innovation through the mechanism of improving social trust levels. Further analysis indicates that the role of Confucian culture in fostering technological progress is more pronounced in regions with limited Taoist and Buddhist influences, minimal foreign cultural impacts, and a robust legal environment. This research sheds light on the intricate mechanisms through which informal institutions impact technological innovation, offering valuable insights for theoretical exploration.

Research on the Influence of Confucian Culture on Enterprise Agency Conflicts

With Chinese listed companies from 2008 to 2019 as research samples, this paper takes the number of Confucian academies within a specific radius of the enterprise as the proxy variable of Confucian culture, which found that Confucian culture is negatively correlated with enterprise agency conflicts and can reduce enterprise agency conflicts. Furthermore, the relief effect of Confucian culture on agency conflict is more apparent in private enterprises and areas with high legalization and more openness to the outside world. The conclusion of this paper further enriches the research on the influence of informal institutions on corporate governance, which also provides some reference for regulators when formulating relevant institutions, such as forming an effective mechanism from the perspective of culture, so as to promote the enterprises by cultural restrains. During the promulgation and implementation of legal systems, we should take full advantage of the guiding role of traditional culture and combine formal systems with informal ones, thus leveraging their strengths to promote the healthy development of the market.

Intimate Partner Violence in a Heterosexual Marriage: Case Study of a Korean Couple

This study explores an abusive wife's symptoms and risk factors of intimate partner violence (IPV) in a heterosexual relationship. A qualitative approach, using a conceptual cluster network, was used to analyse the family therapy case of a wife abusing her husband. Findings indicate that the wife's IPV‐related symptoms included victim mentality, despair, depression, insomnia, aggression, and the desire to divorce the husband. The wife's risk factors were present at the personal, family‐relational, and sociocultural levels. This study indicates that therapists counselling violent Korean couples may explore couples' communication styles, undifferentiation of self, transference, the culture of filial piety, and the influence of Confucian culture.

How does Confucian culture affect technological innovation? Evidence from family enterprises in China

Culture is one of the crucial elements of technological innovation. The existing studies hold that Confucian culture is conducive to the technological innovation of Chinese Listed Companies. However, Chinese family enterprises with relatively profound Confucianism encounter the bottleneck of weak innovation. This makes people wonder whether Confucian culture is conducive to the technological innovation of family enterprises. To solve this mystery, we investigated the effects of Chinese Confucianism on technological innovation in Chinese family enterprises. We found that family entrepreneur’s entrepreneurship had worse innovation performance under the influence of Confucian culture. The results are robust to different measures of innovation and are still valid when controlling for the potential endogeneity between Confucian culture and technological innovation. This study provides a more fine-grained perspectives about Chinese innovation culture.

Professional Development of Music Teacher in China: Practice and Challenges

Since 2001, national basic education curriculum reforms have been instituting to meet the demands of quality-oriented education in China. Due to this nationwide reform proposed to cultivate students’ moral, intellectual, physical and aesthetic development, music education which is a vital component of aesthetic education has received considerable critical attention from Chinese government. In the last two decades, the argument of significance of teachers’ professional development (PD) in curriculum reform has led a growing trend towards practice aimed to promote PD of music teachers in China. This paper presents an analysis of challenges the music teacher PD practice has met. Based on the discussion, it must be suggested that policymakers, school principals, PD program providers should increase attention to the effectiveness of music teacher PD programs and take available measures. This paper contributes to ongoing discussions about factors to be considered in designing PD programs for music teachers in countries or societies under the influence of Confucian culture. Potential areas of further work include exploring the factors restricting the effectiveness of music teacher PD programs in China and the framework of high-quality PD program for music teachers in the context of Confucian culture.

Influence of Confucian culture on entrepreneurial decision making using data from China's floating population

Confucian culture has had a deep-rooted influence on Chinese thinking and behavior for more than 2,000 years. With a manually created Confucian culture database and the 2017 China floating population survey, we used empirical analysis to test the relationship between Confucian culture and individual entrepreneurial choice using data obtained from China's floating population. After using the presence and number of Confucian schools and temples, and of chaste women as instrumental variables to counteract problems of endogeneity, we found that Confucian culture had a significant role in promoting individuals' entrepreneurial decision making among China's floating population. The results showed that, compared with those from areas of China not strongly influenced by Confucian culture, individuals from areas that are strongly influenced by Confucian culture were more likely to choose entrepreneurship as their occupation choice. Our findings reveal cultural factors that affect individual entrepreneurial behavior, and also illustrate the positive role of Confucianism as a representative of the typical cultures of the Chinese nation in the 21st century.

The Spread and Influence of Confucian Culture in Russia

The Spread and Influence of Confucian Culture in Russia

Influence of Confucian Culture and Parental Satisfaction with Engineering Majors on Academic Performance in Engineering Education

AbstractIn this paper, we try to examine the role of parents in affecting their children’s sustainable success in engineering education at the university level. Specifically, this study explores th...

Body and Embodiment in Goguryeo Mural Paintings: Focusing on the Influence of Confucian Culture

고구려 고분벽화 속 인물의 몸은 벽화분 내 주요 출현 위치에 따라 크게 세 부류로 구분된다. 첫째는 천장고임부 천인들의 작고 유려한 몸, 둘째는 무덤칸 내부 생활 장면 속 인물들의 밋밋한 몸, 셋째는 무덤칸 경계부 장사들의 크고 우락부락한 몸이다. 이러한 차이는 인물의 의복 착용 상태와도 연관되어, 두 번째 부류는 몸의 대부분이 의복으로 가려져 있음에 비해, 첫 번째와세 번째 부류 중에는 상체나 다리가 노출되어 있는 경우도 있다. 기존 연구에서는 위 세 부류 각각에 대한 설명이 시도되기는 하였으나 이들 사이의 관계에 대해서는 구체적인 논의가 이루어 지지 않았다. 고구려 고분벽화에 표현된 위와 같이 대조적인 형태의 몸을 이해하기 위해서는 무엇보다 먼저 현대의 이미지화되고 상품화된 몸에 길들여져 시각적 표현 주체와 대상을 서로로 부터 독립적으로 존재하는 것으로 여기는 이분법적인 사고에서 벗어나야 한다. 본고에서는 위와 같은 목적으로 20세기 후반부터 서구의 여러 학문 분야에서 집중적으로 논의된 ‘체화(體化, embodiment)’라는 개념을 고대 동아시아 유교 전통에서의 젠더화(genderization) 및 의례화 (ritualization)의 의미와 관련하여 역사적으로 맥락화하였다. 이에 기반하여, 인물 등장 고구려 벽화분 천장고임부에 주로 표현되는 천계(天界), 그리고 널길이나 무덤방 입구 벽면에 주로 표현되는 경계(境界)는 인물의 젠더화와 의례화가 이루어지지 않은 비-사회적 공간이었기 때문에 인물의 개성이나 드러난 몸 표현이 금지되지 않았던 것으로 해석하였다. 그에 비해 무덤방 내부 벽면은 인물의 개성이나 생물학적인 몸보다 사회적 관계의 조화와 유지를 위해 젠더화되고 의례 화된 몸 표현이 중요했던 공간으로 이해하였다.Diverse kinds of human or pseudo-human figures appear and disappear in Goguryeo mural paintings. They are largely divided into celestial beings near ceilings, social beings on the inside of chambers, and herculean beings on the border of chambers. While the celestial beings have free-floating slim bodies and the herculean beings huge or muscular bodies, the social beings have robot-like bodies. In previous studies these characteristics were discussed as separate topics from one another. In doing so little attention has been paid to relationships among those three different forms of human or pseudo-human beings. To understand such relationships, the concept of embodiment is introduced and examined in the context of Confucian culture. This leads to the suggestion that the contrast among the three forms of bodies was created and maintained as genderization and ritualization were closely intertwined in the definition and acknowledgement of social beings in 4-5C Goguryeo.

Confucian home education in China

Home education, in particular Confucian home education, has been increasing steadily in China over the past decades. However, research relating to home-schooling families has largely been ignored. In particular, the literature grounded in empirical study and focusing on the development of Confucian home education is negligible in the educational context of China. This study places a focus on the influence of Confucian culture and beliefs on the development of home education in China, which is now attracting scholarly interest and public attention. It provides in-depth information regarding the status of Confucian home education, the motivation to undertake Confucian home education, teaching content, teaching methods and its outcomes. It is found that Confucian values and beliefs fit well with the model of home education in China in terms of the relationship between family, education, moral development and society.

Educational research in Mainland China: current situation and developmental trends

The influence of Confucian culture in Chinese Mainland China is reflected in the current situation and contextual trends of educational research content of educational thought of Confucianism, educational issues grounded on theoretical views of Confucianism, and the influence of the inclusiveness of Confucianism. In terms of research method, the current situation of educational research is reflected in empirical research whose methods value the construction of the metaphysical theoretical system, the guiding role of educational theories for educational reform practice, and research that enriches the literature. In terms of research value, the current situation of educational research is reflected in studies that focus on human nature, human relations, thoughts, willpower, emotion, human rights, and benevolence, as well as studies focusing on education that serves politics. In terms of research content, the development trend of educational research is reflected by endeavours aimed at expanding educational research content in the context of Confucianism.

The Influence of Confucian Culture on Business Management: A Case Study of Chinese Entrepreneurs in Macau

Through thorough interview, questionnaires and observation of 26 Chinese entrepreneurs in Macau, this paper conducts a preliminary empirical analysis of their enterprises. Although Macau has experienced integration of Chinese and Western cultures for centuries, it still retains the traditional Confucian culture. Under its influence, enterprise form of Chinese entrepreneurs in Macau is dominated by family enterprises; enterprises lay more emphasis on merits of loyalty and diligence in their choice of employees; their staff management focuses on the will of the people and interpersonal relationship and at the same time the fine example of managers is also influential. Macau, with a small geographical area, forms a typical “acquaintances society”, therefore “relationship” plays an important role in the operation of enterprises and integrity is maintained under the supervision of acquaintances.

Family succession through adoption in the Chosun Dynasty

Using a unique data source of genealogies of upper-status families, called Bulcheonwye families, we assess how the extent of family succession through adoption changed over five centuries from 1450 to 1949 in Korea. Our analysis shows the continued increase in the share of adopted sons among total family successors up to the end of the 19th century when three out of ten family successors were adopted. The trend of the increasing role of adoption is closely related to the declining number of sons per family, suggesting that not only the rising influence of Confucian culture but also demographic changes increased the demand for adoption. Finally, our comparison provides evidence that the likelihood of achieving high social status was significantly higher among adopted sons than biological ones, suggesting that the socioeconomic potential of adopted sons could be an important factor for adoption decision.

The Labour Movement in Taiwan

The spectacular industrialisation of Taiwan has created a large working class. Yet, while there have been a number of inspiring struggles and attempts to organise, a powerful labour movement has not emerged there. Many observers of East Asian industrialisation have attributed this failure to the influence of Confucian culture. This article disagrees and suggests that the reasons for the weakness of the Taiwanese labour movement are not to be found in cultural stereotypes of Confucian docility or group loyalty. Rather, an analysis of the Cold War origins of the Taiwanese regime, the preponderance of small-scale, rural industry and the great ethnic divides which have been manipulated by political and business leaders on the island since 1949 provide far more convincing explanations for the weakness of Taiwanese labour.

Family, nation, and the world: The global ethic as a modern confucian quest

Under the influence of Confucian culture, industrial East Asia has developed a less adversarial, less individualistic, and less self‐interested modern civilization. As such, the synergy engendered by individual initiatives with group orientation has made this region economically and politically the most dynamic area of the world since the Second World War. This paper engages with this development by exploring the Confucian perception of human flourishing which is based upon the dignity of the person, in terms of a series of concentric circles: self, family, community, society, nation, world, and cosmos. It is in the anthropocosmic spirit that we find communication between self and community, harmony between human species and nature, and mutuality between humanity and Heaven. This integrated comprehensive vision of learning to be human can very well serve as a point of departure for a new discourse on the global ethic.