Word: confucianism
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Other Chinese besides the bureaucrats who missed their lunch were pained by this incident. It violated the cherished Confucian precepts of self-discipline and respect for rulers and elders. Yet this was contemporary China-the China of uncompromising civil war and unlimited inflation (last week the cost of living in Tientsin was 16,790 times as great as before the war). This was the disordered China which made even sympathetic Americans say "To hell with that mess; let's keep...
Chen is China's leading Confucian-in-politics, and he stresses the excellence of all-or most-things Chinese. Yet Chen is not antiforeign. He deplores the tendency of Westernized Harvardman T. V. Soong to infuse massive doses of Westernization into a country which, so far, has been at least as much hurt as helped by contact with the West. Like any thoughtful Oriental, Chen is aware of the Japanese example of too rapid, superficial absorption of Western ways. Chen says...
...Easy." Written in 1942 and subsequently revised, China's Destiny displays a Confucian approach to the organization of society interestingly at odds with the democratic constitution adopted in January (at Chiang's urging) by China's National Assembly. Throughout both Destiny and Economic Theory, Chiang 1) attributes China's revolution (and the need for it) almost entirely to the Westernizing "corruption" of the unequal treaties; 2) rejects democracy in the Western sense in favor of the class "equilibrium" of Confucius; and 3) advocates a "Chinese" system of economics which rules out free enterprise capital...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Start of a 33-week discussion of "Pursuit of Happiness"; Lin Yutang expounds the Confucian approach...
...looks like an American Indian and who loves bright neckties and ice cream, Chang heads the "Political Science Group," which wants a modernized, industrialized China on a broad, democratic base. Chang has been a Kuomintang executive since 1928, is no left-winger but is equally opposed to the Confucian conservatism of Chen Li-fu. This week the newspaper Ta Rung Pao reported that Chiang Kai-shek may succeed T. V. Soong as Premier, bring in Chang Chun as his deputy and administrator...