Word: confucius
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...respected by many Chinese in his native Shantung Province who call themselves Wu mi ("infatuated with Wu"). Before he was ten years old, he could recite thousands of lines of the Chinese classics. No other Chinese military leader is so familiar with the writings of Confucius, from one of whose favorite pupils he is said to be directly descended. When barely 19 his academic robe was adorned with "four buttons,"scholarly rewards for "felicity in phrasing."Almost alone among Chinese war lords, he cared little for wealth, was scrupulously honest, did not allow his troops to loot the Chinese countryside...
...Hankow, at Shanghai the Japanese Army seized pro-Chinese books by U. S. Authors Carl Crow, Agnes Smedley, Edgar Snow, two issues of the New York Times, one issue of TIME. The U. S. Consulate protested. In a national radio broadcast Chinese Premier H. H. Kung, descendant of Confucius, described China's bountiful harvests this year, exulted: "God is helping China...
...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...
...orthodox Confucians Author Crow's Confucius may sometimes seem confusing. But they will have to admit that he succeeds in peeling off a lot of the 24-century coating of official lacquer. In fact, as Author Crow portrays him, the huge, ugly wise man emerges with a look as human as Benjamin Franklin...
What Author Crow particularly liked about Confucius was that he attempted to found no religion, on the contrary disliked nothing more than.mystics and professional philosophers. He was really, says Author Crow, a brilliant scholar in search of an honest political job. With Chinese politics what they are, and Confucius the cautious kibitzer he was, he was 50 years old before he found one, as governor of a province. Besides giving the province the best government it had ever had, he also astonished his disciples as a master of realpolitik. His good-government policy was simple. He merely designated the following...