Word: confucians
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...Chinese are intensely proud of Yao, who has done the Confucian thing by living with his parents and sending polite holiday cards to his teammates and opponents, Shaquille O'Neal included. But few people outside the Middle Kingdom ever imagined how deeply a product of China's socialist sports system would capture American hearts. Earlier this year, Yao signed a deal with McDonald's, which had dropped its previous spokesman, Kobe Bryant. Kobe was supposed to be the next Jordan. Turns out the new Michael is a man named Ming. --By BROOK LARMER, author of a forthcoming book on China...
...faux pas to be a minor one. However, what the National Assembly provided was a perfect example of "rule by law"?the opportunistic, unprincipled and entirely situational use of legal statutes by the powerful to gain political advantage. Such a practice has been the bane of unscrupulous Confucian governments throughout East Asian history...
...economic toll has been accompanied by social tragedy. South Koreans, who once adhered to the Confucian nostrum of assiduous saving, are now struggling to cope with harassment by creditors and the shame of personal bankruptcy. Newspapers have reported a rash of suicides, violent crime, kidnappings and prostitution attributed to overborrowing. In September, a deep-in-hock housewife leaped to her death from a ninth-floor apartment, taking her 13-year-old daughter with her. In August, two young women with heavy credit-card bills killed themselves by drinking a cocktail of alcohol and poison. "I often speak to debtors...
...full of taboo subjects: sex, religion, sex, suicide and sex. Talk radio allows the shy and curious alike to discuss issues they would never dare broach even with their closest friends. Ye Sha hosts a late-night radio show in Shanghai, a city where the neon present collides with Confucian tradition. These days, many of her calls are from wives and mistresses on either side of the extramarital divide. With fewer neighborhood spies to keep track of a person's movements, such illicit relationships are burgeoning, but there's little chance to discuss these forbidden affairs except on programs like...
...being ostracized. In China, required reading for every medical student is On the Absolute Sincerity of Great Physicians, a 1,400-year-old treatise by Sun Simiao that Hippocrates would appreciate. But traditional ethical tracts never addressed the greater role that doctors play as guardians of public health. Confucian Emperors were suspicious of physicians; books published in the Song dynasty encouraged self-diagnosis among citizens. This contrasts with the evolution of Western medical ethics, which stemmed from the pragmatic realization among 18th century European powers that strong armies and workforces depended on good public health, necessitating standard qualifications for doctors...