Word: confucian
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...claimed the P.R.C. would be unable to continue its upward climb unless it converted to Western ways, and Martin Jacques' When China Rules the World (2009), which countered that Beijing is destined to displace Washington as capital of the world's leading superpower - and will not have to abandon Confucian values or Leninist structures to do so. (See pictures of China...
...ethnic divide, the clear ideological fault line between loyalists and dissidents, and so on. And they often buy into the cozy but distorting official myth of "thousands of years of continuous civilization," which suggests that China's borders have remained fairly constant over time and that the "Confucian tradition" has been remarkably enduring. When in the company of even the most astute Big China Book authors, like Jacques, I often find myself wondering if the place they are describing can really be the same one that I regularly visit and teach and write about for a living. For the China...