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How did the capitalist political doctrines of the West combine with the ideas of Confucianism?

Instead of directly transplanting the Western doctrines of freedom, equality, natural human rights, and separation of powers, Kang Youwei and others used the authority of Confucianism to publicize the rationality of the Reform. In The Examination of the New Learning and False Scriptures, Kang Youwei combined the Western theory of evolution with the traditional culture of the ancient scriptures, rejected the historical cyclical theory of ancient Chinese history, and expounded on the idea that the times are ever-changing and progressive. The Examination of the Reform of Confucius treats Confucius as an advocate of civil rights and equality. While learning from the West, Kang and Liang elaborated on the idea of political change in China from the perspective of China's national conditions. Kang Youwei elaborated the viewpoint of political change in his "Request for Constitutionalization and Opening of the National Assembly", "I heard that all the countries in the East and the West may have opened the National Assembly for this reason. Congress, the king and the people **** discuss a country's government also, benefit from the three powers of the said, to the Congress legislation, to the judge justice, to the government administration, and the master of the total ...... master of the people respected as sacred, there are subject to the responsibility of the government on behalf of, so the king of the people and the millions of nationals as a whole, the country an can not be strong?". . Liang Qichao also put forward to implement political change in China's thinking: "the basis of change, in the education of talents; the rise of talents, in the opening of the school; the establishment of the school, in the change of the imperial examinations. And everything to its great success, in changing the official system." Yan Fu introduced the knowledge of Western natural science and the political doctrines of the bourgeoisie in The Theory of Heavenly Evolution, and systematically disseminated Western capitalist culture, advocating improvement and opposing revolution. These views of the Restorationists provided the theoretical basis for the Restoration and Reform. The fusion of Western evolutionary and political doctrines with traditional Chinese culture was a prominent feature of the Restoration ideas.