Word: confucius
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wait for the grandson this ritual is supposed to guarantee. The searching need for faith is written on the faces of the Chinese who pace each day, by the thousands, through the "Confucian forest" in Qufu. There, among the 600-year-old birch trees, are buried 77 generations of Confucius' descendants. Their graves, trashed and looted during the Cultural Revolution, have been rebuilt and remade in this decade. During the Cultural Revolution, in the 1960s, angry adolescent Red Guards dug up Confucius' grave, the most sacred spot in the forest, to show the Chinese that it was empty, that their...
...Book of Confucius. Quality of life and solitude are good and well while enjoying the fine cheeses and well while enjoying the fine cheeses and wine of France or the sangria and tapas of Spain. But some Harvard students flee from the "good life" and pursue soul seeking under more rugged conditions...
Such risk-takers are influenced by the philosophies of Eastern thinkers from V. S. Naipaul to Confucius...
...Promiscuities, draws on what she and her friends experienced growing up to make the point that female longing is dangerously suppressed in our culture. She argues that the world would be a better place if we celebrated women's sexuality the way so many ancient peoples did. "Confucius, in his Book of Rites," she writes, "held that it was a husband's duty to take care of his wife or concubine sexually as well as financially and emotionally." It seems to have eluded Wolf that ancient Chinese women might have aspired to something better than life as a concubine...
Most took as their starting point the thesis that the region's comparative advantage over the West was its culture. We Westerners, you see, are too--how shall we put this?--liberal. We emphasize individual rights and initiative. Asians are more group oriented. Following the dictates of Confucius, they are willing to submerge their identities and desires into those of the collective. Most important, Asians have more respect for authority, especially that of an educated elite...