Beijing Weekend

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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