Word: confucianism
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...liberty without organization, "and we have become a heap of sand." What was needed was the cement. Chiang's Kuomintang tried to provide it. Slowly, while tirelessly expounding Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Principles, Chiang forged his own philosophy of rule. Deeply imbued with Confucian thought, it was a theory based on precept, on the loyalty of subject to ruler, of son to father. "If the ruler is virtuous, the people will also be virtuous," Confucius taught...
...sometimes gabby style of her China Coast pieces in The New Yorker, and of her bestsellers (China to Me, The Soong Sisters), she has written the first popular biography to examine Chiang in the only way he can be understood: as a singularly great man, a lonely combination of Confucian self-discipline and Methodist virtue, forced to fight at once against centuries of obsolete custom, Japan's armed invasion, and a vicious, un-Chinese revolution inspired by Moscow...
...shown such firm and specific regard for the natural law and for basic religious principle. This emphasis is the key value of Lippmann's important book. He concludes: "Political ideas acquire operative force in human affairs when . . . they bind men's consciences. Then they possess, as the Confucian doctrine has it, 'the mandate of heaven.' In the crisis within the Western society, there is at issue now the mandate of heaven...
...thronged around him, beating gongs; soldiers competed to eat at his table; refugees chaired him around their hovels in informal marches of triumph. Diem took his reception spiritedly, with none of his celebrated reticence, enjoying crayfish that had been smuggled south to him from the Communist North, and a Confucian ballet performed by 32 silk-clad girls. Diem also impressed the villagers by his coolness when his ceremonial barge, overloaded with admirers who clambered aboard, capsized and sank in the river near Hué. "Ladies first," Diem insisted from knee-deep in the river, when rescuers put out from shore...
...Hindu holy man. He made converts among high-caste Hindus, but had to fight off the charges of apostasy made against him by literal-minded fellow priests. Similar missionary techniques were used earlier in the century by Jesuits in China, who followed the dress and manners of local Confucian scholars, and by Jesuits in Japan, who modeled their behavior on that of Buddhist priests...