Ritual and the moral life

David Solomon, Ruiping Fan, Pingcheung Lo (eds)

Springer - Berlin

2012

In the twentieth century, in both China and the West, ritual became marginalized in the face of the growth of secularism and individualism.  In China, Confucianism and its essentially ritualistic comportment to the world were vigorously suppressed during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) under Mao Zedong.