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After reading Mr. Xu Kang’s book “Integrating Realm and Seeking the Way”

Li Yousheng (2014) Reading a good novel like “Dream of the Red Chamber” is like getting to know a person. You will remember it often, and it will occupy a special place in your mind. It can even influence your life path and benefit you for life because it represents a kind of humanistic spirit and temperament. Appreciating a painting, […]

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Human Prison and Human Hell

Yusheng (July 18, 2011) China has a long-standing saying about “prisons on earth,” a concept similar in meaning to the Western concept of “hell on earth,” a view contrasting with paradise on earth, describing human suffering as hellish. Because Chinese religious faith is not as devout as that of the West, and their understanding of hell is less profound, they […]

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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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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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