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Confucianism in East Asia
Confucianism has frequently been regarded as a religion without a supernatural dimension, a set of ethical precepts wholly of this world: however I would argue that, given the fact of ancestor-worship in traditional Chinese religion, the Confucian teachings about filial piety may truly seem to have the force of otherworldly command. Confucius himself complains about the decline in standards for filial piety in the Analects (II.7), noting that most people in his lifetime thought their filial obligations had been met when their parents were fed: Confucius' complaint is that even dogs or horses can be merely fed, and what characterizes genuine filial piety is reverence. This is, of course, a complaint made by Confucius about the broad gap between ideals and actual practice, even within his own lifetime: we cannot expect the general trend in China to have been particularly better at any other point in history. The real origin of Confucian emphasis on filial piety, however, is probably socio-economic reality, combined with Confucius' overwhelming concern for social stability and peace. For a population to aspire to live long and work hard, they must have a comfortable old age to await them. So the Confucian hierarchy of age whereby a parent is provided for in old age by a reverent child essentially takes the place of a "social safety net." As long as all...
To some extent the basic Confucian notion of self-cultivation is, itself, a form of filial piety already: what I mean by this paradox is that self-cultivation entails measuring one's achieved potential against the canons of tradition, the achievement of past generations. They provide the measure whereby one's own level of cultivation is to be judged. In terms of social groups, however, filial piety in China essentially becomes practiced as a form of competitiveness: individuals lose the sense of comparing themselves to the established measure of the past, and instead are busy comparing themselves to their contemporaries. On the state level, however, the tenets of filial piety most likely contributed to the political stability that was the ultimate Confucian goal: if one observes these pieties within the structure of the traditional family, then it is much easier (as Friedrich Engels once noted) to submit to similar hierarchies of power on the political level.
2. The central Confucian tenet of filial piety is certainly relevant when we consider what is perhaps the most memorable incident in Lixin Fan's documentary Last Train Home: the argument in which the father slaps his daughter, Qin. Of course the central premise of Last Train Home seems to be turning…
Some Chinese researchers assert that Chinese flutes may have evolved from of Indian provenance. In fact, the kind of side-blown, or transverse, flutes musicians play in Southeast Asia have also been discovered in Africa, India, Saudi Arabia, and Central Asia, as well as throughout the Europe of the Roman Empire. This suggests that rather than originating in China or even in India, the transverse flute might have been adopted through the
Bioethics has been dominated by a European model, with European worldviews and philosophies dominating the discourse. This is true in academia as well as in public policy. The need for global bioethics discourse is pressing, because the life sciences are no longer regional or provincial in scope. For example, there has been a lot of speculation as to the progress made in East Asian cloning laboratories, particularly in China and South Korea. Claims
' (Adams, 1982) Local agencies helped the magistrate, remedied public mores, and also inspected the conduct of the "Hyangni" and served as power base for the local "yangbans. "Yangbans" were dispatched to the province from the capital. Yangbans -- constituted of the class of advantaged / privileged civil and military servicemen. Yangins constituted of middle-level bureaucrats, peasants and merchants, whose children were allowed to sit the exam for governance service.
Repatriation of profits have proven to be a problem as well. Fourth, as stated by Staff (2004) is the challenge presented by poor training in the sector which is stated to be "...weak both at a practical level as well as at a higher strategic level" and the problem has only been exaggerated due to the government and other regulatory authorities in China to promote logistics programs." (Staff, 2004)
Parent's Selection for Supplementary Tutoring Centre in Hong Kong - Primary School Level With reference to the above discussion, it can be apparently observed that the education industry in Hong Kong is quite expanded. However, the performance of students and educational growth in the country can be observed to be weakening which indicates that the education sector in Hong Kong requires to be facilitated significantly within a short-run period. This
As a result, economic development was redefined in terms of reduction or elimination of poverty, inequality, and unemployment within the perspective of a growing economy (Mamede & Davidsson, 2003). Research indicates that entreprenuership can be both the cause and effect of economic development in the sense of wealth distribution. Countries in which wealth is concentrated in the hands of a small fraction of the population face greater difficulties in coordinating