Key Concepts in Chinese Thought and Culture

With Equality, There Is No Poverty.

When wealth is equal and its distribution is fair, people will not feel there is poverty. This was a concept of political governance propounded by Confucius (551-479 BC). Jun (均) means fair and balanced, with everyone receiving a share. Pin (贫poor), in contrast with fu (富rich), means receiving less. In Confucius’ view, whether a person is rich o…

Produce a Piece of Writing for Emotions / Produce Emotions for a Piece of Writing

An author should produce a piece of writing to express emotions and not produce emotions for a piece of writing. In the chapter “Emotions and Rhetoric,”Liu Xie (465?-520? or 532?), the Southern Dynasties author of The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons, points out two contrasting attitudes towards literary creation. Some writers, who inhe…

Practice in Person

This term first appeared in The Analects. Gong (躬) means in person and xing (行) refers to the cultivation of morals. According to Confucianism, one should cultivate his morals in everyday life to develop personal integrity. This term embodies the view that knowledge and action should be closely integrated with each other. Confucianism is against t…

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: The purposes of the Project are to select the concepts in Chinese culture and thought that reflect the characteristics of the country's traditional culture and the Chinese people's way of thinking, and that embody the core values of China.
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