Was Confucianism Responsible for China's Failure to Modernize? How significant was China's more than 1000-year tradition of a stable, hierarchial, Confucian society in keeping China from seeing the need to modernize? "If you can rule your own country, who dares to insult you," was a statement that Confucious had once said. Confucious was a very influential man and many people in China abided to his statements with feelings of great credence. China's modernization suffered severely …showed first 75 words of 723 total…

…showed last 75 words of 723 total…China. In conclusion, the significance of the Confucian society keeping China from seeing the need to modernize is overwhelming. So many years of modern reform were lost because of that. The lack of industrial and economic expansion, and China's isolation as a result of the Confucian society was a tremendous loss. The 1000-year old tradition of Confucianism was by no means good for China and in my opinion hurt there country as a whole severely.