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<p>Han learning (<a href="/facts/Simplified_Chinese_characters/UcAD6xXs">simplified Chinese</a>: 汉学; <a href="/facts/Traditional_Chinese_characters/bBFLkuz7">traditional Chinese</a>: 漢學; <a href="/facts/Pinyin/pUwjfMXg">pinyin</a>: <i>Hànxué</i>), or the <a href="/facts/Han_dynasty/hanfxS9D">Han</a> school of classical <a href="/facts/Philology/5u0xzd5g">philology</a>, was an intellectual movement that reached its height in the middle of the <a href="/facts/Qing_dynasty/5j6r4p5m">Qing dynasty</a> (1644–1912) in <a href="/facts/China/lTjIXY5p">China</a>. The focus of the movement was to reject <a href="/facts/Neo-Confucianism/PCkHarML">neo-Confucianism</a> in order to return to a study of the original <a href="/facts/Confucian/Nlbwgmxw">Confucian</a> texts. </p>