Word: ch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unmoved by Dickens' crocodile tears, Biographer Kingsmill applauds his comic vein to the echo, calls The Pickwick Papers "his greatest book and the finest example of comic impressionism in our literature." He sniffs at Dickens' "Bravery" in championing social reforms, says his dragons were papier-mâché bugaboos: "He was one of those reformers who attack with public opinion behind them, and are rewarded with an increase in their wealth and popularity. He was not one of those reformers . . . who run counter to public opinion and are put in prison and ruined." Kingsmill states his whole...
...four are interrelated. Otherwise li without i becomes dishonest; without lien becomes extravagant; without ch'ih becomes flattering. All these may appear like li but really they are not. ... In like manner, ch'ih without li will be chaotic; without i, violent; without lien, ugly. They are no longer ch...
From Chiang's point of view, however, the four ancient virtues mean even more: ch'ih, patriotism; lien, morality; i, social sense or the exact opposite of its English meaning, and li, discipline-the four cardinal virtues of any nationalistic State. Says Chiang...
Chinese must relearn, says Chiang, one by one and all together, the breeze's four virtues: li, i, lien and ch...
...Ch'ih, meaning "consciousness," must govern the motive of action through the sense of duty...