Word: confucians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When they read 400 Million Customers, Carl Crow's engaging best-seller about life among Chinese businessmen, skeptics may have suspected that his Chinese sympathies had been inspired by his profitable Shanghai advertising business. When they learned that he had long been a Confucian, even skeptics had to admit it looked as though he had written from a well-informed heart...
...Author Crow became a Confucian becomes clearer after reading Master Kung, his biography of Confucius. What attracted him to Confucius was not the official perfectionist version of China's greatest historical figure. He became a convert because Confucius seemed the perfect personification of the Golden Mean-a moralist without asceticism, a reformer without fanaticism, a conservative without bigotry, a scholar without pedantry, a rugged individualist with a social conscience-but for all that, a man with such human foibles as touchiness and misogyny...
...Duke had escaped by special train from Shantung Province when the Japanese marched in fortnight ago, blasting the ducal seat near the Sacred Mount Taishan, where some 10,000 descendants of the Sage are buried. In 1936 the Confucian Society of Japan got the boy Duke to come to Tokyo and dedicate a shrine to the Sage. Ever since there have been rumors that Japan was persuading the Duke to let her set him up as puppet ruler of China...
...China cannot absorb Japan, what are the chances of Japan's dominating China permanently? Here the second new element enters the situation. China absorbed her earlier conquerors chiefly by reason of her own greater cultural vitality. In part it has been this same vitality of the old Confucian way of life which has delayed China's modernization. In the last decade the tempo of modernization has markedly increased, but instead of evaporating, the old culture seems to be forming the basis for a rapidly growing modern nationalism,--as one might expect. Modern China is becoming more and more conscious...
...mayor of Peiping was ready to do Japan's bidding, prepared for a Gilbert-&-Sullivan ceremony in the Confucian Hall of Perfection, rounded up 80 orphans to bleat traditional Confucian music, to watch him kowtow nine times to China's sage...