Background
Zhao Jibin was born in 1905 in Nehuang, Henan Province, China.
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New Exploration of The Analects of Confucius' is reasonable on the basis of the original system of thoughts, gives a positive academic exploration of social problems in the Spring and Autumn Period through Chinese traditional culture classic 'The Analects of Confucius'. Then it briefly explains the class basis, philosophical system and historical status of the ancient Confucianism, thus promoting the traditional culture, highlighting history and cultural role of Chinese traditional classic. (Chinese Edition)
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Zhao Jibin was born in 1905 in Nehuang, Henan Province, China.
Zhao Jibin studied on his own without formal higher education.
Zhao Jibin was a professor at Fudan, Northeast, Dongwu and Shandong Universities. He was a fellow of the Institute of History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He was a president of various teachers’ colleges. Zhao Jibin was an adviser of the Philosophy Teaching and Research Section of the Chinese Communist Party Higher School.
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From the 1940s Zhao Jibin argued that Kongzi belonged to the declining Zhou dynasty slave-owning class, whose interests he tried to protect. Unlike many holding the same view, Zhao supported his position by means of sophisticated textual study and philological analysis. His understanding of ren in the Confucian Analects as 'slave owners’ rather than ‘men’ and his argument that benevolence was secondary to a return to Zhou rites in Confucian values sharply challenged the view that Kongzi was a humane proponent of universal morality rather than a reactionary defender of class interests. Again employing a close textual examination, he contrasted Mozi seen by him as a common man committed to hard work and human creativity and the transmission of tradition, with Kongzi, who was committed only to transmit Zhou values. In the 1960s Zhao’s textual analysis was joined by the historical studies of radical anti-Confucian figures like Guang Feng. Although their views received only moderate support at the time, they contained impressive arguments which were enforced upon all intellectuals by the Cultural Revolution and the Anti-Confucian Campaign.