Word: confucius
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Pao Tselg, a descendant of famed Philosopher Tsing and the founder of a school for well-bred Chinese girls, observed that Confucius in all his teachings mentioned women only twice. She quoted his maxim: "It is very difficult to keep company with women or with small-minded men." And she recalled his reply to King Wu, when this worthy had mentioned the aid, which he received in ruling, from a council of 10 persons: ". . . There are only 9, for 1 is a woman...
...Among other things it must be remembered that Chinese culture has its roots in ancient times," Dr. Hornbeck said, "and government in China has always been a matter of persons. Confucius laid down the fundamentals of human conduct in precepts for the relation between ruler and the subject, husband and wife, parent and child, senior and junior, friend and friend...
...China "the three Soong sisters" are ladies of polite renown. The first is the wife of H. H. Kung, a gentleman whose august destiny is summed up in the fact that he claims to be a lineal descendant of Confucius. The second was internationally known as the wife, and later as the revered widow, of Dr. Sun Yatsen, "sainted" founder of the Nationalist movement. She is now reported married (TIME, Oct. 10) to her late husband's zealous co-worker Chen Yu-jen ("Eugene Chen"), until recently Foreign Minister to the defunct Hankow Nationalist Government (TIME, April...
...courtiers of Confucius, men with bitter yellow faces blackly stitched into acute angles, invented a game. They would stand, fantastically foppish in long sleeves and ivory silk, silent on the shiny green leather of China turf, each holding in his hand a great smooth ball of polished wood. It was a picture in suave bright colors infused with a slow and graceful motion. There would be a swish of light brilliance above the lawn, a brush of spinning wood on grass, a far-away microscopically delicate click as wood touched porcelain. The game was first to pitch balls into...
...recent visit to Chufu, in the Province of Shantung, China, invited as a matriculant to the University of Pennsylvania a young gentleman whose genealogy has no peer for well-authenticated length or world-wide distinction, Duke K'ung, aged 6. The Duke is 72-times-great-grandson of Confucius.* Where is the university that can boast, as Pennsylvania may be able ten years from now, of having the honor to enlighten a scion of a founder of a 24-century-old philosophy? What bursar has collected fees from the seed of Plato, Aristotle, Buddha or Mohammed? Sheltered...