Beijing Weekend
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Is Confucian Reciprocity a “Silver Rule”?
A friend of mine (thanks Karl!) sent me a link to a story in the Irish Times, way back on January 31: Unthinkable: Which ‘golden rule’ of ethics is best, the Christian or Confucian? It is an interview with Yinya… Continue reading
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Beijing Weekend: Moving Up to the Main Paper
My meteoric rise in the Chinese media continues! (I am being facetious…). Yesterday, December 2nd, I had a piece, albeit rather short, in the Features section of China Daily, the main newspaper (or, at least, that… Continue reading
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Beijing Weekend: Naming Planets
I just noticed that China Daily ran another one of my pieces last Friday in the Beijing Weekend section. Here’s the link to the on-line version. They made one error, changing a word that mangles a sentence.… Continue reading
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Finding Positive Solutions
Today I had my first "meet the blogger behind the blog" experience – and I had to come all the way to Beijing for it. I was over at China Daily meeting with an editor of the Beijing Weekend… Continue reading
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Beijing Weekend – Not this weekend!
I heard from my editor last week and he told me that they will not be running my column every week. Seems that they have a number of other contributors and they want to run a wider variety… Continue reading
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Beijing Weekend: Confucius is not a capitalist
A little something this week on how Confucian thought relates to modern economic practice. The China Daily web link is here. Full text below the jump. Continue reading
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Beijing Weekend: Women are Better Confucians than Men
I imagine there might be some dissent from some of my male readers out there. But, the more I think about it, the more it seems true to me that women, in their attention to social relationships, are… Continue reading
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Beijing Weekend: Corruption
I though I might catch a little flak for this one but China Daily published it just as I wrote it. Full text below the jump. I especially like the Mencius quote. Continue reading
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Beijing Weekend: The Stem Cell Research Debate
This week’s Beijing Weekend column ran under the title, "The Chinese alternative to the stem cell research debate." It was published exactly as I wrote it – and that now requires on minor revision. When I wrote it… Continue reading
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Beijing Weekend: How Much is Enough?
This past Friday, my second Beijing Weekend column ran in China Daily. The web page publication is here. I am also going to copy the text below the jump of this post, for anyone who is interested. I… Continue reading