Word: confucian
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...much of intellectual interest, to be discovered from the experience of these ancient civilizations. In China and Japan there is a rich store of historical material on stone, bronze and old manuscripts, awaiting critical study and publication in a form accessible to the rest of the world. The Confucian emphasis on human relations exercised a powerful influence on oriental social and legal theories, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse, according to our ideas. There would be great interest and perhaps some social profit in following such leads in Chinese literature for ideas which might be applicable today...
...Arnold's war will be no Blitzkrieg. Molasses-slow is the Judiciary Committee, headed by foxy old Hatton Sumners of Texas (who has the Confucian viewpoint that none-of-this-will-matter-in-a-thousand-years), and composed of 25 other lawyers, who know all the ins-&-outs of legal obfuscation. Some members of the committee are of Arnold's mind, some are frankly antilabor; and Arnold's basic underground work has been effective. Oklahoma's Monroney can be expected to steer a middle course between the Congressmen who want to coerce labor at the bayonet...
...Shakespearean English reads "Very bad. To be or not to be. That is the question." In Hong Kong, I asked a Chinese what the Chinese thought of the Japanese. He replied "Chinaman think Japanman no got proper savvy box." I notice the American public has been indulging freely in Confucian sayings. How is this one? Confucius says Chinese read from right to left, while American read from left to right. American say "hell-o," Chinese say "O-hell...
Chinese legend declares that Chin P'ing Mei (Metal Vase Plum-blossom) was written by a famed 16th-Century Confucian scholar as a satire on the private life of a corrupt official. The official received a presentation copy, fell dead as he finished the last of its 1,600 subtly poisoned pages. No believer in such legend, Arthur Waley, expert on Chinese literature, says the novel's authorship is doubtful, like that of China's other famed novels. He traces first mention of it to a book published around 1600, wherein Chin...
Filled with Confucian aphorisms ("With a passionate man love is like the sun, which follows its course to the west and rises again in the east!"), Chin P'ing Met puts many a simple moral into simpler verse. Extolling the homely virtues, one ends...