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How did neo-confucianism respond to the changes of late Ming society?

Title: How did neo-confucianism respond to the changes of late Ming society?
Category: /History/Asian History
Details: Words: 2033 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
How did neo-confucianism respond to the changes of late Ming society?
Ming society from the late sixteenth to the mid seventeenth century was a society in the grips of profound economic, social and political changes. It is always easy to look back on a period, view the big picture and label it as a period of upheaval. But records left show that even contemporaries recognised the ferment they were living through. With such all-encompassing and intense changes, it was perhaps inevitable that the tradition of morals, …showed first 75 words of 2033 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2033 total…of insecurity and disorientation as the people of the Ming must have felt. Today, psychology-babbling gurus have cashed in. In the 16th and 17th century, the neo-confucians cashed in. Seeing a people in need of guidance, they picked out those elements of their teachings which would be comprehensible and relevant and expanded them into a new ideology to suit the times. Neo-confucianism in the late Ming was less a faith than a secular counselling service.

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