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For those interested in Asian history in the blogosphere, be sure to check out the 7th installment of the Asian History Carnival hosted by the good folks over at Mutantfrog Travelogue. Lots of great resources, links, articles, think pieces, and debates all in one place to catch you up on what’s going on in the field of Asian history. Kudos to Roy Berman for putting it together this month and to Jonathan Dresner over at Frog in a Well for coming up with the idea a year ago this month. On Richard Spencer’s excellent foreign correspondent’s blog for the Telegraph comes a story about Confucianism in today’s China. (“Chaos and Confucianism in the Classroom,” thanks to ESWN for the link.) Spencer argues: “When I have mentioned this before, and indeed when I have read about modern Confucianism elsewhere, it’s normally been in the context of the government. Hu Jintao’s buzzword is harmonious – harmonious society, harmonious development, and so on. This has caused a variety of furious debates, about whether it’s just code for more Party ideology and repression (in a harmonious Confucian society, according to some, everyone knows their place, and it is the place of the rulers to rule and the subjects to let them get on with it); or whether it’s more idealistic, a “harmonious balancing” of economic growth against environmental and social protection, and so on… Many parents are genuinely worried about bringing up their children in China‘s current dog-eat-dog world, where basic values seem to have been by-passed between the anti-society horrors of the Cultural Revolution generation and the win-at-all-costs horrors of crony capitalism.” Spencer is quite correct to note that this recent trend has a deep, and sometimes |
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