East Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam) of Confucian Work Ethic

History of East Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam) Seven Confucian Values: education, family loyalty, work ethic, value of traditions, conformity to traditional standards, honoring of ancestors, and obedience to superiors. Five Students of Confucius: China Japan Korea Taiwan Vietnam GPP PPP and Population in 2050 China: $80.00 trillion, 1400 million Japan: $7.00 trillion, 95 million Korea: $6.00 trillion, 70 million Taiwan: $2.00 trillion, 20 million Vietnam: $5.00 trillion, 117 million ______________________________ Total: $100 trillion, 1700 million www.wired.com en.wikipedia.org Confucianism and Its Spread to Vietnam By: James A. Crites www.angelfire.com What we now today as the northern part of Vietnam was first annexed by the Chinese in 207 BCE.(fig.1) This was the beginning of more than one thousand years of Chinese rule and Vietnamese rebellion. During this long period Vietnam was influenced by China's technology as well as its culture. Vietnam never lost her self identity but she did absorb many things from China, some more than others and one of the things that she did readily accept and implement was Confucianism and the examination system. In 939 the Vietnamese rebel forces were able to push the Chinese out in one of many battles between the two, but this time Vietnam became an independent state. More than eleven hundred years of Chinese rule was finally over. At this time Confucianism shared a place at the royal court along with Taoism and Buddhism. By the ...

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