Word: tzu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chiang's body will be "temporarily interred" at Tzu Lake, a favored scenic spot 25 miles south of Taipei, until the "recovery of the mainland" permits permanent burial in his old capital at Nanking or in his native Chekiang province. Meanwhile, all of Taiwan will observe an obligatory mourning period for 30 days. Flags will fly at half-mast; all places of public entertainment will be closed by government order...
...suited to China's goals, it has caused a number of acute problems. Unused to the rigors of farm life, the young people often prove incapable of adjusting. In addition, many farmers are contemptuous of the soft city kids, who in turn view the peasants as hopeless tupao-tzu (country bumpkins). More often than not, the result has been mutual isolation, incomprehension and worse-occasional beatings or rape incidents. Though Peking has become sufficiently aware of the problem to send advisory teams to boost morale and investigate complaints, countless youths go AWOL from the communes. Many refugees in Hong...
...surprised that you overlooked these words of Lao-tzu...
Moral government was part of The Way, but dissent in its absence clearly was not--The Master said, "He who holds no rank in a State does not discuss its policies." To those with modest power, his disciple Tzu-yu added, "In the service of one's prince, repeated scolding can lead only to loss of favor." And in Imperial China, favor was with-drawn with a vengeance--China's greatest historian, Ssu-ma Ch'ien, was castrated for defending a general who had fallen into the disfavor of a Han emperor. Ssu's action had been morally correct...
Confucius, whose name is a Latinized version of King Fu-tzu or Master Rung, would likely be amused at all the attention he is getting. His own life was singularly lacking in worldly success. Born in 551 B.C. of an impoverished noble family in what is now Shantung province, he spent his life as an itinerant office seeker, wandering throughout the feudal kingdoms into which China was then divided, looking for a ruler who would put his ideas about government into practice. Except for a few months as a minister in his native state of Lu, he remained unemployed until...