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| Farmers, Mao, and Discontent in China: From the Great Leap Forward to the Present |
By Dongping Han 2009-12-27
How is it possible to explain the high esteem in which Mao — long after his death — is held among many Chinese people, despite the official and semi-official onslaught on his legacy and image?7 Chinese elites and Mao’s enemies have produced numerous publications to discredit Mao. But if the sufferings and brutalities allegedly imposed on the Chinese farmers by Mao’s government were true, the farmers would have known them, first hand. Why do so many farmers still hang Mao’s picture in their houses, and hold his memories dear, and, in some places, build temples to worship him? |
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| Neither “One Divides into Two” Nor “Two Fuse into One”: 2nd reply to Mr. Lang Yan |
By Sherwin Lu 2009-11-29
“One divides into two” without a dynamic balance means life and death confrontation, which in turn means one extinguishing the other. Either the principle of “one divides into two” holds but then there will be no “end of all classes” or of other catastrophic divisions and confrontations; or this prospect shall be realized but that would mean “one divides into two” does not hold as the all-embracing philosophical generalization of the way of the world. One or the other. An either/or dilemma. The only way out is ... |
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| CHINA NEEDS A CONSULTATIVE LEGAL SYSTEM |
By Pan Wei 2009-10-10
This article discusses the rule of law and democracy, the two major aspects of modern political life, against the different historical backgrounds of the developed and developing countries, and then proposes a model mixing the two aspects in a proportion the author thinks best for China, laying emphasis on the rule of law. |
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| A Theory of Credit Human Rights |
By Zhao, Tingyang 2009-04-03
Human rights should be granted unconditionally and equally to everyone in terms of credit or "loan", but one will keep his rights only on condition that he would carry out his corresponding obligations as a return for his granted rights. |
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| A Political Philosophy of World in terms of All-under-heaven (Tian-xia， 天下) |
By ZHAO, Tingyang 2009-03-18
Our globe has not yet become a world of oneness, but remains the chaos of a Hobbesian situation, for there is no real coherent world society under a universally accepted political institution of a system of the world. The world will not be made unless organized and controlled by a world institution established on a new world-view, a new political philosophy for the world. It is here that the Chinese All-under-heaven philosophy comes in.
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| How Confucianism Departed From the Dao of Dynamic Balance |
By Sherwin Lu 2009-03-07
Confucianism as a system of thought is not that “superior” on the whole as lauded by rulers of past dynasties. Since what is beyond the physical world is left undiscussed, it has failed to reach and grasp the all-encompassing general law in the universe, that is, the supreme way of Heaven and Earth as revealed by Daoists. Hence, even though their motives might be genuine and well-meant and some of their ideas are valuable and worth inheriting and carrying forward... |
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