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Historically made from baekja, a porcelain of refined white kaolin clay, moon jars rose to prominence in the late 17th century, a time when the country’s neo-Confucian ideals inspired an aesthetic preference for austerity, clarity and understated elegance.

A neo-Confucian order, channeling ancient conservatism through modern one-party rule?

And since 2014, Xi has been praising the Ming dynasty Neo-Confucian thinker Wang Yangming.

One of the signatories of that campaign was Chen, the neo-Confucian academic from Capital Normal University.

Curator Virginia Moon, who organized the exhibition, says the more than 500 years of continuous rule by 27 kings provided Korea with a "sense of stability bound by strict neo-Confucian principles."