The Sage and the People: The Confucian Revival in ChinaWinner of the 2015 Pierre Antoine Bernheim Prize for the History of Religion by the Acadmie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres After a century during which Confucianism was viewed by academics as a relic of the imperial past or, at best, a philosophical resource, its striking comeback in Chinese society today raises a number of questions about the role that this ancient tradition might play in a contemporary context. The Sage and the People is the