Korean Confucianism
Under the succeeding Han Dynasty and Tang Dynasty, Confucian ideas gained even more widespread prominence. During the Song Dynasty, the scholar Zhu Xi (AD 1130–1200) added ideas from Taoism and Buddhism into Confucianism. In his life, Zhu Xi was largely ignored, but not long after his death his ideas became the new orthodox view of what Confucian texts actually meant. Modern historians view Zhu Xi as having created something rather different, and call his way of thinking Neo-Confucianism. Neo-Confucianism held sway in China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam until the 19th century.
Zhu Xiao Di
Zhu Xiao Di (, born 1958) is a Chinese-American writer. He authored a novel, "Tales of Judge Dee", and a biographical work, "Thirty Years in a Red House: A Memoir of Childhood and Youth in Communist China", and contributed to "Father: Famous Writers Celebrate the Bond Between Father and Child", an anthology including contributions by Annie Proulx, John Updike, Dean Koontz, and Calvin Trillin. His latest work is in Chinese, a collection of over 60 essays, "Leisure Thoughts on Idle Books" (闲书闲话).