Henry C K Liu: The Race Toward Barbarism
Henry C K Liu is chairman of the New York-based Liu Investment Group. He writes on the Asia Times Online:
Actually, East Asian societies often exhibit behaviors and attitudes just the opposite of the supposed salient features of Confucian modernity indicate. Indeed, having been humiliated by imperial ...
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“China redefined
How it will influence the post financial crisis world
By Einar Tangen
Long before President Nixon’s first trip to China, we in the West developed the habit of trying to interpret Beijing’s ideas and actions as if we were reading tea leaves.
We looked at China and wove our own picture of its workings and motivations claiming that it is the only recourse in deciphering an opaque and “inscrutable” society. Viewing China through the looking glass of our own perceptions and values has not always been helpful, too often we have seen what we wanted to see.
As China’s influence waxes and ours wanes we need to see China clearly. We need to understand that China is an evolving construct of ideological elements and pragmatic policies applied to an old and unique culture, not a competing political ideology or business model. Instead of reading tea leaves we need to begin a dialog with Chinese political, business and social thinkers about the China Construct in the post crisis world”
http://www.biztimes.com/news/2009/6/12/china-redefined
Thank you for this article. I really understand your spirit and I’m very sad for the kind of “modern ways” some eastern countries are choosing.