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A review of Xu Tianbo’s “War and State Formation in Ancient China and Modern Europe”

Yusheng In my book, “A New Interpretation of Chinese Taoism”, I compared the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods of China with modern Europe and found that the two were highly similar. [1] The comparability between the two is very extensive. This comparison is conducive to our examination of history in a broader perspective and to our deeper understanding […]

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A collection of miscellaneous manuscripts (six articles)

Yue Shixuan (Yu Sheng) (a) A culture of wealth accumulation implies a rapidly changing society. (II) Establishing a correct philosophy of life (III) The instability of secondary societies as seen from the perspective of total fins (iv) Humanity has entered a new era (V) Religious belief is the path to happiness. (vi) The Chinese tradition of complementing Confucianism and Taoism […]

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A Review of Zhang Yuanshan’s “Why Chinese People Are the Most Intelligent in the World” (Part 2) (Original text by Zhang Yuanshan attached)

Li Yousheng (March 2015) Abstract: In his blog post, Zhang Yuanshan discusses why the Chinese are the most intelligent people in the world, and points out the various drawbacks behind this success after comparing it with the West. Zhang argues that since the Qin and Han dynasties, the Chinese have misdirected their intelligence, becoming clever but not wise. Under the […]

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A Review of Zhang Yuanshan’s “Why Chinese People Are the Most Intelligent in the World” (Part 1)

Li Yousheng (March 2015) Abstract: In his blog post, Zhang Yuanshan discusses why the Chinese are the most intelligent people in the world, and points out the various drawbacks behind this success after comparing it with the West. Zhang argues that since the Qin and Han dynasties, the Chinese have misdirected their intelligence, becoming clever but not wise. Under the […]

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Reflections on Reading Liu Zaifu’s Eighth Edition of “Farewell to Revolution”: Evaluating Mao Zedong Requires Specific Analysis Rather Than General Assessment (Part 2)

Li Yousheng Abstract: Dividing human society into a natural, primitive society and a man-made, two-tiered society reveals that Chinese civilization began in the primitive society while Western civilization began in the two-tiered society. Furthermore, because both Confucianism and Taoism idealize the primitive society, Chinese civilization lacks an understanding of the inhumanity of the two-tiered society. This paper re-analyzes Mao Zedong’s […]

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Reflections on Reading Liu Zaifu’s Eighth Edition of “Farewell to Revolution”: Evaluating Mao Zedong Requires Specific Analysis Rather Than General Assessment (Part 1)

Li Yousheng Abstract: Dividing human society into a natural, primitive society and a man-made, two-tiered society reveals that Chinese civilization began in the primitive society while Western civilization began in the two-tiered society. Furthermore, because both Confucianism and Taoism idealize the primitive society, Chinese civilization lacks an understanding of the inhumanity of the two-tiered society. This paper re-analyzes Mao Zedong’s […]

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Ah Q’s spirit of self-deception is a reflection of traditional Chinese literati.

Li Yousheng Plato’s Republic is divided into three classes: philosopher-king, soldiers, and commoners, representing the psychological levels of rational thought, heroic emotions, and material desires, respectively. In Chinese history, since the Song Dynasty, there have been three classes: the imperial court, bureaucratic scholars, and the peasant masses. My research over many years has shown that before the 1950s, rural China […]

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Article 63: Throughout history, emperors have often been scoundrels.

Li Yousheng (Community Newspaper, Issue 36, April 2016) British intellectual historian William Acton (1832-1902) said: “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” From the day civilized society developed political power that could not be controlled by humans, humanity recognized that power was not a good thing. If Western history, with its decentralized power leading to escalating wars culminating in the […]

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Thoughts after reading Li Youzheng’s “Recollections and Facts”

Li Yousheng (Completed in March 2017) (one) The back of Li Youzheng’s book “Remembering the Past and Narrating the Reality” states: “Through Li Youzheng’s unique experience, we see a microcosm of the painful struggle of Chinese intellectuals against Western culture in the more than one hundred years since the introduction of Western learning to the East, and at the same […]

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Human Beings: A Comparison of Li Youzheng’s Early Life and My Personal Experiences

Li Yousheng (March 2017) I received a copy of “Recollections and Facts” from Li Youzheng (1936-) in 2012. After reading it, I was deeply impressed by his unique life experiences, his objective and realistic spirit that blended Chinese and Western perspectives, and the profound insight of a scholar in his later years. I initially planned to write a review, but […]

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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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