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Washington would attach. Liberal, scholarly Hu Shih took a parable from Mencius : "Here are a small basket of rice and a bowl of soup, and the case is one in which the getting of them will preserve life and the want of them will be death. [Yet] if they are offered with insulting voice, even a tramp will not receive them . . . even a beggar will not stoop to take them." Still other Chinese, not quite sure what the U.S. might eventually ladle out, hoped for more than drops. Editorialized Shanghai's China Press last week: "China's needs...
...officio director of China House, as director of the China Institute, is Dr. Meng Chih, 44, onetime student at North Carolina's Davidson College and a Columbia A.M. An astute and affable patriot and educator, Dr. Meng is a descendant of China's great philosopher of democracy. Mencius (372-289 [?] B.C.). As honorary president of China Institute, the speech of acceptance at the dedication was made by famed Dr. H. H. Kung (A.B. Oberlin; A.M. Yale), Vice Premier and Finance Minister of China, 75th lineal descendant of Confucius (from K'ung Futse meaning "Master Kung...
...Mencius, the ancient Chinese political philosopher, once said that the training of men of talents was one of the pleasures of a superior man. That pleasure still remains with the refugee professor in spite of war and poverty...
Human Traits. Dr. Lin finds the clue to such a common standard in the old Chinese philosopher, Mencius (372-289 B.C.), who taught that four human traits are common to all men: 1) a heart of mercy; 2) a sense of shame; 3) a sense of courtesy and respect; 4) a sense of right & wrong...
...Mencius' partial answer to the questions this book raises is of less political interest than Dr. Lin's fierce indictment of the western world and the shortcomings and plans of the United Nations with respect to Asia', and especially China. Little that Lin says has not been said more calmly and more carefully already by thoughtful, worried Americans and Europeans...