Word: confucius
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...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...
...literature. The scene of "contention of a hundred schools of thought" brought forth the Spring and Autumn Period 2,500 years ago and the Warring States Period over 2,200 years ago and the emergence of various schools of thought and their exponents, such as Lao-tzu and Confucius, about 2,400 years ago. All occupy a very important position in the world history of philosophy...
...world would be a better place, Wolf contends, if we celebrated female sexuality the way so many ancient cultures did. This line of thinking leads to the book's occasional dabblings in scholarship, and the results are often ludicrous. "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 (or as the wife...
...length of the gallery. They range from Yan Liben's Thirteen Emperors' Scroll, the only surviving visual record of a series of Chinese emperors, to the scrolls of the famous emperor and artistic patron Huizong, whose devotion to the arts cost him his throne, to the earliest portrait of Confucius. These paintings overwhelm the viewer not only with their historical importance but also with their delicate and subtle rendering of volume, depth and material detail...