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...opera initially provoked nobody's wrath. But now People's Daily has castigated it as an "outrageous attack" on Mao Tse-tung's revolutionary philosophy. The party organ charged that Peach Mountain was a remake of a 1966 opera that ignored class struggle while promoting the Confucianist notion of a "kingdom of gentlemen." Most offensive of all, the original opera centered on a horse, egregiously symbolizing Mao Tse-tung, that had brain damage and could not gallop-or "leap forward...
Ironically, some aspects of Communist rule are reminiscent of these Confucianist ideas. Mao Tse-tung studied the Confucian classics for six years as a youth and never entirely escaped their influence. In his four-volume Selected Works, no less than 22% of his references to other writers are to the sage or his disciples-just short of the 24% devoted to Front-Runner Joseph Stalin...
...gone. That is at best a long-range hope. For Mao, however, there are more immediate advantages to be gained from the conflict. He has often used the threat of a foreign enemy to rally support for his own policies while isolating his domestic opposition. Though no Confucianist, he obviously appreciates the sage's saying: "Without the menace of foreign aggression, a country is doomed...
...twilight of life at the age of 79, Mao Tse-tung seems to be becoming ever more Confucian. Recent pictures of him receiving visitors in his book-lined study indicate that he spends much of of his time there, and he gave visiting Japanese Premier Tanaka several volumes of Confucianist commentaries on Ch'u poetry (the historical state of Ch'u is Mao's birthplace). China watchers believe that they have seen signs of Mao's beginning to turn inward, to reflect on himself in the light of Confucian philosophy. From a Confucian bit of advice...
Despite the patriarchal influence of Chinese Confucianism, the strongly Confucianist legal code of 19th Century Nguyen dynasty had to respect the economic role of Vietnamese women, she added. For example, the code forbade a husband from divorcing his wife if she had already made him rich through her labor...