Ruzang

China’s massive Confucius cultural project gets AI boost with ByteDance donation

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China’s massive Confucius cultural project gets AI boost with ByteDance donation

Chinese internet giant ByteDance has donated 25 million yuan (US$3.4 million) to digitise a national cultural project that is compiling all known Confucius classics, with the help of artificial intelligence. ByteDance, the parent company of Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, said the donation would support the compilation and digitisation of the Ruzang, or “Confucian … Read more

How Xi Jinping is going back to Confucius to define China’s future

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How Xi Jinping is going back to Confucius to define China’s future

For most of the 103-year history of the Communist Party of China, the teachings of the philosopher Confucius were deemed relics of a backwards past, with its leaders looking to Marxism and socialism to modernise China. But under President Xi Jinping’s leadership, Confucianism has made a dramatic comeback as the bedrock of imperial Chinese ethics … Read more