1. Concept
Unlike Boudhism (1801; Buddhism) and Tauism (1839; Taoism), which Angloromanized indigenous terms, the term Confucianism, invented in Europe in 1862, is a neologism based on the Latinized form of the Chinese name Kongzi (Latinized as Confucius), denoting the doctrine and school of Confucius for which the Chinese term is Ru. The early European travel reports of the 13th and 14th centuries did not yet mention this …