Dazed and Confucius: Nine common myths about China “Everything we think we know is wrong: the various China whispers that have warped how we view the country and its people….”
君子不器
Dazed and Confucius: Nine common myths about China “Everything we think we know is wrong: the various China whispers that have warped how we view the country and its people….”
Guide them with policies and align them with punishments and the people will evade them and have no shame. Guide them with virtue and align them with li and the people will have a sense of shame and fulfill their roles. Confucius
Writing China: Michael Schuman, ‘Confucius and the World He Created’ Chinese President Xi Jinping often cites Confucius in his speeches. Is he, like the old emperors, using the sage to justify authoritarianism? I believe that is exactly what President Xi is doing. For about two millennia, the emperors of China had used a form of…