Word: confucianism
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...victor of Tatung was General Fu Tso-yi, 51, governor of Suiyuan since 1931, Confucian protege of old Shansi "Model Governor" Yen Hsi-shan, and known in Kuomintang China as an able, honest, austere soldier. In the hour of victory General Fu took up his brush and addressed a plea to Communist Party chairman Mao Tse-tung: "The battle has taken the lives of at least 20,000 of your troops. We have buried them and wept over them. How sorrowful was the picture as they fled in fright, bleeding and falling by the roadside. I could not but press...
Many signs now point to the Church's swing back. At weddings and funerals Chinese Catholics may bow to tablets bearing the names of ancestors-if the priest is sure the gesture indicates only respect and is not tinged with Confucian worship...
...shrewd, soft-spoken Confucian. As chairman of the Council, China's mellow statesman seemed to remember the wisdom of the Analects: "Men are born pretty much alike, but through their habits they gradually grow further and further apart from each other." Imperturbable, patient, conciliatory, Dr. Quo sought to bridge the chasm of habits. His logic was simple and overwhelming (when Gromyko asked why the chairman had halted discussion, Dr. Quo answered: "I have no more speakers on my list...
...preserved the essential spirit of a lyrical drama with a simple, fairy tale-like atmosphere unfamiliar to must American theatre goers. The unadorned plot--a story similar to Chancer's "Patient Griselda"--remains intact through the translation and condensation into one-third the original length, as do elements of Confucian ethics and what appears to be satire of Buddhist ritual...
...final chapter, an essay on democracy and the future, Author Lin predicts an inevitable defeat for the Communists. "Marxism," he says, "sounds 'foreign' to Chinese ears, and the Chinese family and Confucianism . . . will be too strong for them. They will become pro-Confucian and pro-nationalist. ... So history will play pranks with men's ideas...