Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi and Postmodernism

The Differences Between Eastern and Western War Cultures: (Part Three) The Differences in the Nature of War in the Early Stages of Eastern and Western Civilizations

Yu Sheng (from the 24th issue of “Learning Lamp”) Many years ago, I read an anthropologist’s observation of a primitive tribal “war.” I still remember it clearly. Although I don’t have the relevant documents at hand, this is common anthropological knowledge: two sides lined up facing each other, about fifty meters apart. Each side had thirty or forty men, lined […]

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Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi and Postmodernism

The Differences Between Eastern and Western Warfare Cultures: (Part Two) The Bible Story and Similar Chinese Legends

Yu Sheng (from the 24th issue of “Learning Lamp”) The Bible says that Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge and were expelled from the Garden of Eden by God. Their sons then began to kill one another, to the point that God regretted creating humankind. Scholars, based on the biblical genealogy, have calculated that […]

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Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi and Postmodernism

The Differences Between Eastern and Western Warfare Cultures: A Case Study of Duke Xiang of Song’s Defeated Defeat by Chu Due to His Adherence to Military Rules (Part 1) A Beacon Illuminating Chinese History: Giving Duke Xiang of Song His Righteous Name

Yusheng Abstract: Western civilization followed a path of escalating warfare accompanied by a step-by-step progression of society and culture. China condensed this millennia-long Western civilizational process into the Warring States period, spanning just over two hundred years, with two thousand years of stability preceding and following it. The author uses the distinction between genetically encoded primordial society and artificially constructed […]

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Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi and Postmodernism

The relationship between the overall thought of the Book of Changes and the pre-Qin Daoist and Confucian schools of thought

The relationship between the overall thought of the Book of Changes and the pre-Qin Daoist and Confucian schools of thought Yusheng (revised, October 9, 2010) Abstract: This paper takes a different approach to the Confucian-Taoist debate surrounding the thought of the *I Ching* (Book of Changes). Starting with the psychology of divination, it argues that the Ten Wings aimed to […]

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Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi and Postmodernism

The Five Degrees of Mourning and Early Literary Thought in the East and West

Author: You Sheng Article Source: *Xue Deng* (Learning Lamp), Issue 8 Abstract: The five-rank system of mourning rites recorded in the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties represents a universal vision where ancient political regions and cultural dissemination were equal. It was also a natural consequence of the relatively peaceful and stable social environment maintained by ancient China as a superpower, […]

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Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi and Postmodernism

A new perspective for examining the differences between Eastern and Western cultures

Yu Sheng (from *Xue Deng*, Issue 7) Abstract: This paper divides human society into two types: genetically encoded and artificially created. By examining the various schools of thought in China and the philosophical traditions of the East and West, it finds that Chinese society before the Warring States period was mainly a primitive society based on genetic encoding, while Western […]

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Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi and Postmodernism

Will democracy run out of options?

Yue Shixuan (Yu Sheng) The current US presidential election, between George W. Bush and John Kelly, is a fiercely contested battle. Throughout the campaign, neither side has had a clear advantage at any point, and opinion polls have shown their support to be nearly identical. The entire nation is on edge, fearing a repeat of the outcome four years ago: […]

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Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi and Postmodernism

Confucius and Jesus: Different Evolutionary Paths of Eastern and Western Humanities

Yue Shixuan (Yu Sheng) In 1984, Zhang Guangzhi first proposed the crucial role of witchcraft in the origins of Chinese civilization, distinguishing it from the technologically advanced civilizations of the Middle East and the West (1, 2, 3). This sparked heated discussions among scholars, who also pointed out that this blurring of the lines between religion and politics, with a […]

By Dr. You-Sheng Li

Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi and Postmodernism

Mao Zedong and Taoist thought

Yue Shixuan (Yusheng) (Rewritten in June 2007) I believe the best summary of Mao Zedong’s life is what he himself said in his youth: “To struggle with Heaven is endless joy; to struggle with Earth is endless joy; to struggle with Man is endless joy.” These three phrases aptly describe Mao himself and the mainland China under his control from […]

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Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi and Postmodernism

The concept of a two-tiered society and the complementary relationship between Confucianism and Taoism in mainstream Chinese culture

Li Yousheng (Xue Deng, Issue 15) Abstract: After dividing human society into a genetically encoded primitive society and a man-made secondary society, it was found that the Chinese before the Warring States period mainly lived at the primitive society level. After the Warring States period, the Qin and Han dynasties began to establish a centralized system, but it was still […]

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Dr. You-Sheng Li

In his later years, Li Yousheng studied Taoist philosophy and proposed the concepts of a genetically encoded primordial society and an artificial secondary society.

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