Word: confucianism
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...Roosevelt refused to see him. When the U.S. entered the war, Pound delivered a series of rambling and vaguely anti-American diatribes on Radio Roma. According to Mary, he did not really intend to betray his country but to persuade it with right reason. He saw himself as a Confucian scholar-statesman, and plastered the town of Rapallo with moralistic slogans: HONESTY IS THE TREASURE OF STATES. His daughter sees him as a lone wolf howling in a world gone...
...institutionalize socialism but to institutionalize revolution. To prod the country's historically passive masses into a ceaseless struggle for the new world, writes University of Michigan Political Scientist Richard Solomon, Mao made virtues of hostility and aggression, the two human characteristics most deeply suppressed by the Confucian ethic. "The more one hates the old society," Mao reasoned, "the more one will love the party and the new society." Notes Solomon: "Mao believes the intense sentiment of aggression is the only force powerful enough to sustain the involvement of China's peasants and workers in the tasks of social...
...China this capitalist drive for power was undermined by foreign imperialism which destroyed the old Confucian system and worked to inhibit the growth of an independent bourgeois class. Only the CCP, the strongest domestic force, could unify the country. Across the Sea, Japan stood as a classic counter-example. How could Japan achieve isolation and peacefully transform to an industrial power? Horowitz only circles this basic question. He mentions the belated bourgeois development in Germany and Japan in his discussion of fascism, yet he ignores the unsuccessful bourgeois revolutions in Russia and China...
MILLIONS of mainland Chinese may have found another sort of faith in their devotion to the wisdom of Chairman Mao, but on Taiwan the island people still cling to their ancient folk religion, a heady mixture of Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian beliefs and practices. None of the old gods and goddesses is more popular than the gentle Matsu, patroness of fishermen and seafarers. According to legend, Matsu was a devout 9th century girl who acquired divine powers at her early death. Pioneer Chinese settlers credited her with protecting them on their trip across the Taiwan Strait 350 years...
...Jesuit methods in China scandalized the rival Franciscans, who did not approve of such cultural accommodation. A century-long controversy developed around the "rites" issue-whether or not Chinese Christian converts could be permitted to retain their cult of ancestor veneration. When the Vatican finally decided against the Confucian rites, Catholic hopes in China shrank. Not until World War II did Pope Pius XII reverse that decision. When Pope Paul VI spoke admiringly of "the cult of ancestors" in his "Message to Asia" last week, it was a gesture more than two centuries too late...