BEIJING AND SHANGHAI – Every single Western writer in China will face a tough decision in 2014: “Do I translate Chinese terms or not? If negated, this could lead to […]
Spirit worship and possible side-effects TOKYO AND BEIJING – Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, shocked East Asia by visiting the controversial Yasukuni war shrine which hosts about 2.4 million […]
IN THE old days of the three European missions – imperialism, colonialism, and orientalism – scholars insisted on the existence of Asian “philosophies” and, naturally, they called Asian thinkers “philosophers.” […]
In a way, China is already sponsoring the global X-mas fete. If the Chinese really wanted, they could make Christmas in their own image.
Dr. Pattberg explains why certain Chinese words are mandatory for global citizenship.
The Path to Socialism with Chinese Characteristics BEIJING – Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Party’s Central Committee, delivered a work report to the Third Plenary Session of the 18th […]
Does Ban Ki-moon see China as the next superpower? The General Secretary of the United Nations sent his warm greetings to Beijing Forum 2013, a governmental prestige project – thereby […]
THERE IS something I must tell you about China: It is rather morally creative in the usage of its women. There isn’t a hotel, massage parlor, ktv, or conference hall in town […]
Consider how much more beautiful and authentic and sophisticated and accurate our world would become if we could appreciate the key terminologies of all cultures.
Few Chinese terms survived the translational onslaught during the age of European imperialism.
Rampant corruption causes headaches for China’s new leadership “They are notorious for deceiving wherever they can. […] Their frauds are most astutely and craftily performed, so that Europeans have to […]
Shengren, Junzi, Ruxue: The Chinese World is Coming Back in Full Circle “…the creator, when he arises, always finds himself overwhelmingly outnumbered by the inert uncreative mass…” – Arnold J. […]
How the perfect American Confucianism ought to be constructed BEIJING – There ruminates a discussion, from east to west, as to how the perfect American Confucianismought to be constructed. Should […]
China is in full gears to becoming a cultural superpower, and its 400 million micro-bloggershave a huge stake in creating the future society.
China wants to challenge Anglo-Saxon monopoly on cultural soft-power? Don’t do it all in English! Why Zhongguo Meng, and not “Chinese Dream?” This we learn from history: Great powers (almost) […]
Capitalism forces nations to compete for market share, natural resources and human capital. Less obvious so, they also compete for names, brands and terminologies.
Many Chinese terminologies are deceased in world history yet behave in China as if alive – they are undead vocabularies. THE WEST’s treatment for foreign socio-cultural originality is legendary: Western […]
WESTERN commentators translate the Zhongguo Meng as “Chinese Dream,” thereby patronizing China’s socio-cultural originality and marketing it as a franchise of the “American Dream”. But are the two civilizations really […]
LITTLE IS known about China in Europe and America. Although the Chinese were enviable thinkers for over three millennia, almost nothing of their originality has reached us intact. The reason […]
In the Chinese Zodiac, the snake is a mythical creature that symbolizes academia, wisdom, and the pursuit of knowledge. What better year than this to talk about the coming expansion of Chinese thought and the rise of China's terminologies.
