In the past, when Chinese people wondered about the meaning of life, they looked to the Confucian classics or brought their questions to monasteries and temples.
But this tradition has been decimated, a result of the Communist Party’s decadeslong campaign to eradicate traditional beliefs and replace them with Marxist-Lenninist ideologies of materialism and atheism. Nowadays, many in China have rejected traditional values and turned their focus on seeking personal gain, grounded in an absolute belief in materialism and science.
“But for the real truth we are seeking, it’s hard to find it from science,” said Li Mianying, a Chinese philosopher and entrepreneur who recently moved to the United States….