(Japanese for Wang Yangming) school in Japan inspired and made great influences on subsequent Japanese thinkers and activists such as Nakae Tōju and Ōshio Heihachirō. Lu's interpretation of Confucianism remained influential in China into the twentieth century. In the early twentieth century Lu's philosophy was re-popularized by Liang Shuming in his book The Civilization and Philosophy of the East and the West (1921). The Nationalist warlord Yan Xishan attempted to revive Confucianism in Shanxi largely on the model of the Lu-Wang school. See also Confucianism Mencius Neo-Confucianism Zhu Xi Wang Yangming Notes 1139 births 1192 deaths 12th-century Chinese philosophers Chinese Confucianists Educators from Jiangxi Neo-Confucian scholars People from Fuzhou, Jiangxi Philosophers from Jiangxi Song dynasty essayists Song dynasty philosophers Writers from Jiangxi