Word: confucian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often highly praised, remained a focus for controversy, some of which persists in scholarly journals today. The implications of his method and vision, what he expected of the historian placed heavy demands on those who wrote (and read) history, demands that became clearer as he completed his largest work, Confucian China and its Modern Fate...
...Confucius, the Chinese have valued collective harmony over the assertion of individual rights and the adversary system now characteristic of American justice. Lawyers did not practice privately in China until after the 1911 Nationalist revolution, because laws banned the "fomenting" of litigation, lest it disturb the smooth fabric of Confucian society. "It is better to enter a tiger's mouth than a court of law," goes another Chinese proverb...
...example, Mao was said to have visited his parents' graves, "bowed and placed a bundle of pine twigs" on the tomb. Not mentioned in the People's Daily was Mao's remark: "I hated Confucius from the age of eight. There was a Confucian temple in the village and I wanted nothing more than to burn it to the ground...
...Christenson, Straus Professor of Business Administration with a joint appointment at the Kennedy School, differentiates between functional management--running an organization--and general management, which involves integrating objectives into broader policies. The latter method appears to be the Kennedy School's objective, training generalists, who, like the omnicompetent Confucian scholars who ran ancient China, are capable of flexible decision-making as well as bureaucratic gamesmanship...
...Irregularities. Korea's cowed newspapers never printed the declaration, but within a few hours the Korean CIA (KCIA) began rounding up scores of people who had attended the Mass. In due course, 18 people, all Christians, were charged with violating Emergency Decree No. 9, a measure that the Confucian Park promulgated last year, forbidding criticism of his government or even of the emergency measure. Among the accused, along with Quaker Hahm: former President Yun Po Sun, 79, who held office from 1960 to 1961; Kim Dae Jung, 50, an opposition leader who lost by a narrow margin to Park...