The Grass Bends when the Wind Blows on it – Confucianism in China
Today, a conversation about Confucianism. Hierarchy? Order? Harmony? Peace? Let's unpack a bit of that.
Posts
Plunging Vertically, Lightly Clinking
Fanta Pagoda, in the shadow of Yushan in Changshu. Xu Lizhe, who wrote this poem shortly before jumping off one of #foxconn's buildings in #Shenzhen, 2014
Open Class
ESL in China is partly about teaching English, but largely about having fun and playing games. Schools are often businesses, and the customers are parents. Make those kids happy. If they don't learn much English, who cares? The grades can be faked anyway. So in this episode here are a few games I invented in school, usually without much planning (which is probably self-evident). Fun times had by all!
Random Impulse
The colonial grandeur of Shanghai's Bund Father of modern China, Sun Yatsen The man behind many a grisly murder, Big-Eared Du