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The Lectern: Fragment 21022015
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Saturday, February 21, 2015. There are two places in the Chu Ci. Where the interaction between Confucianism and Taoism becomes most acute and obvious. The first is the poem called Bu Ju. Divination) the second is the poem called Yu Fu. The Fisherman). They appear side by side in the middle of the anthology, and are the only pieces in the anthology that contain prose and dialogue. They both are anecdotes about. Qu Yuan, and therefore cannot have been written by. The Diviner’s reaction is to throw aw...
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The Lectern: 'My Country and My People' Lin Yu Tang
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Thursday, March 12, 2015. My Country and My People' Lin Yu Tang. China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world. The Chinese observer has a distinct advantage over the foreign observer, for he is a Chinese, and as a Chinese he not only sees with his mind but he also feels with his heart…. He writes of his mission to observe and explain his birth culture to his adopted culture. Of the Confucian ideal of the gentleman ruler. He notes the difference between form and substance, or a...
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The Lectern: 'Mr Selden’s Map of China' Timothy Brook
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Sunday, April 05, 2015. Mr Selden’s Map of China' Timothy Brook. All Isles and Continents (which are indeed but greater Isles) are so seated, that there is none, but that, from some shore of it, another may be discovered. Open to all, and that no nation could claim jurisdiction over it. Selden in 1635 published a riposte to de Groot, arguing that the sea was mare clausum. Was the result. Brook comments:. Given Selden’s interest in other cultures and his professional involvement in the law of the se...
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News | Richard Burger | Author of Behind The Red Door: Sex in China
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Richard Burger Author of Behind The Red Door: Sex in China. Nice new shout-out from leading Australian newspaper. Posted on March 9, 2016. I was delighted to see a very nice reference to my book in this new article.…. Huffington Post prints excerpt from Behind the Red Door. Posted on July 11, 2013. My interview with the Atlantic Monthly on Gay Marriage. Posted on July 6, 2013. Great review in Taipei Times. Posted on June 3, 2013. My trip to China, with links to my TV interviews. Posted on May 9, 2013.
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books - 吾国与吾民 | my country and my people
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21566;国与吾民 my country and my people. Lin Yutang 林语堂. My Country and my People (THE must read on Chinese culture, society, psyche, etc - written in 1935 and still true). The Cambridge Illustrated History of China. Comprehensive and unbiased course book on Chinese history). China shakes the World (very well written account on modern China undermining the economic might of the US - by one of the leading FT journalists). Carl Crow: 400 Million Customers. Adeline Yan Mah: Watching the Tree to Catch a Hare.
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Peach Blossom Springs | The Bamboo Sea
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The taller the bamboo grows, the lower it bends. Laquo; John Blofeld on the Chan School and the Heart Sutra. Master Nan Huai-ch’in Performs Tai Chi Ch’uan (1969). June 20, 2015 by thebamboosea. In the Taiyuan period of the Jin Dynasty (AD 376-396), there was a man from Wuling, who was a fisherman by trade. Nodding, the fisherman bade them all farewell, then went out, found his boat and set off for home, following the same route as he had taken there. However, all along the way, he left marks, and whe...
