Monday, April 14, 2008

Ideology in China - Confucius makes a comeback!

A story about the revival published in the Economist in 2007.

Daniel Bell's Lecture on Confucianism

Daniel Bell is one of the most famous scholars on Confucianism. A political scientists and the first Westerner who acquired professorship in Tsing Hua University, he gave lecture on the TVO about the revival of Confucianism in contemporary China. His book is going to release the end of April, can't wait to see it.

Click here for the MP3 link to the lecture.

I'm in the process of transcribing the lecture, will post here when it's ready.

Today I found another link to an interview by Jesse Hirsh, basically he said the same thing

Sunday, April 6, 2008

Exporting Confucian culture

The National Public Raido had a series on China, featuring the rise of Confucius Institute in the United States