Tag Archives: Confucianism

Coping with pollution on China’s coast

Posted on 2008-06-04 by Joel Martinsen

Coastal pollution and pomegranates; remembering the past; Confucianism vs. democracy; quake lake to burst.

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Yu Dan: defender of traditional culture, force for harmony

Posted on 2007-05-08 by Joel Martinsen

Yu Dan (于丹) gets criticized by ‘real scholars’. He Dong (何东) writes in her defense, saying that TV program hosts are the ones who ought to be upset. Zhao Yong in Southern Metropolis Daily writes that she upholds the mainstream government line.

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Confucians vs. Christmas

Posted on 2006-12-23 by Joel Martinsen

Ten PhD’s from major Chinese universities author a document calling for rejection of Christmas and return to native Chinese belief.

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