•In this new thinking, Confucianism was imagined to have had three eras: Classical Confucianism (before the Han dynasty / 220 BCE), Neo-Confucianism (after the 9thcentury), and New Confucianism (20thcentury).
•In 1958, Chinese Confucian thinkers came up with a document called the “Manifesto for a Re-appraisal of Sinology and the Reconstruction of Chinese Culture.”