(picture from the Maoflag.net)I just read the stories from the New York Times.
To be honest, I'm not surprise by the flip-flopping at all. We see that kind of ambiguous attitude towards Confucianism already in the classic-reading education movement.
Honestly, I want to thank Chinese government for providing me so many exciting data to work with. =)
What make it even more interesting is that the Xinhua News -- one of the official media of Chinese government that address mainly to the English audiences -- has NOTHING about it. It is pretty unusual because that site has one of the highest concentration of news related to the term 'Confucius' (well, most of them has to do with the soft-power expansion of the Confucius Institute...)
My favorite quote from the NYT article is the voice of the leftist:
'Unrepentant Maoists celebrated the move on Friday. “The witch doctor who has been poisoning people for thousands of years with his slave-master spiritual narcotic has finally been kicked out of Tiananmen Square!” one writer, using the name Jiangxi Li Jianjun, wrote on the Web site Maoflag.net. '
The discussion about Confucius statue on Maoflag.net is a secret gem to reveal one of the underlying dilemma that this so-called 'revival of Confucianism' is facing, on top of the modernist. Just like secularization is commonly shared favorite by the communist and the 'rightist' liberals, so as anti-Confucianism ~~~
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