Confucian scholars were excited by the inclusion of a long-lost variant of the Analects of Confucius (the so-called “Qi” version). That itself demonstrates a key point of Csikszentmihalyi’s: the Confucius we know is the product of thousands of years of revision and interpretation. And the Confucianism they encountered was itself that reshaped by the Song dynasty thinker Zhu Xi in what’s termed the “Confucian Renaissance.” According to tradition he then turned to editing ancient works for the guidance of future rulers. He was denounced by 20th-century revolutionaries as the champion of an oppressive order — which in many ways he was.