Word: confucianism
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Until 1926, Chiang, was a revolutionary. Thereafter he fought the Communists as vigorously as he fought the Japs. A pious advocate of Confucian virtues, Warlord Chiang was also responsible, Gayn claims, for ten years of military bloodshed. Today, Author Gayn believes, Chiang is at once "a ruthless and intolerant man ... a pious Christian ... a canny politician ... a national unifier of the caliber of Bismarck and a petty and jealous political boss . . . consumed by a passion for power...
...been misrepresented, parodied and neglected by the part of the West that most needed his teachings. Occidental understanding of Confucius, difficult to come by in any edition, gains in the Modern Library's reprint, as a handsome gift book, of Dr. Lin Yutang's selection of Confucian sayings (The Wisdom of Confucius...
...idol of the people and flew in songs through their mouths." When Confucius became Chief Minister to Duke Ting of Lu, his theory of government was applied on a large scale-perhaps to discredit it, for "Rotten wood cannot be carved." The young Duke was led away from Confucian precepts by the insidious gift of 80 dancing girls from a neighboring ruler jealous of the prosperity and the magical reformation in manners that came with Confucius' government...
...principles of order which he maintained and whose ramifications reached into all aspects of life made him particularly vulnerable in a civilization plunging into disorder; their very existence made them counterrevolutionary. Confucius held that a Confucian should...
...Chinese truth beyond the English screen of translation may find in the 265 pages of The Wisdom of Confucius concentrated material for a lifetime of study. Composed at the time of Pythagoras (582-507 B.C.), Confucius' doctrine of the moral law in The Order of Things (a Confucian expression) has the celestial grandeur and poetry of Lucretius...