"For teaching the people to be affectionate and loving, there is nothing better than filial piety" Traditionally attributed to Confucius, "The Classic on Filial

The Xiao Jing or Classic of Filial Piety is a Confucian classic treatise giving advice on filial piety. It teaches how one should behave towards a senior such a

Few if any philosophical schools have championed family values as persistently as the early Confucians, and a great deal can be learned by attending to what the

The disciple Zang said, 'I have heard your instructions on the affection of love, on respect and reverence, on giving repose to (the minds of) our parents, and

In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary study, Maram Epstein identifies filial piety as the dominant expression of love in Qing dynasty texts. At a time when M