A few months ago, we set out to assess Americans’ knowledge of, and attitudes toward, Ruism. To achieve this, we conducted a survey of 379 adults living in the United […]
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In What Sense Does a Ru Need to be Independent and Autonomous?
People usually think the values of independence and codependence clash each other. In some misconstrued version, Ruism is also frequently depicted as prioritizing the value of codependence over individual independence […]
How to Be a Ru
So, you’ve read a few books on Ruism and you’re excited about the ideas you found there. Now what? How do you do Ruism? How do you become a Ru? […]
Ancestor Devotion
If there is a single ritual which speaks to the resilience of the Ruist tradition, it is ‘ancestor devotion.’ Its history began long before the time of Confucius [551-479 BCE], […]
Foot-Binding and Ruism
If there is anything of which the Chinese Ru (Confucian) Tradition should feel guilty about, it is the past practice of female foot-binding in late imperial China. This does not […]