Confucius, Mencius and Confucianism

On Confucius’s Idea of ​​a Fair and Equal Society

Yusheng Abstract: In recent years, Confucius’s idea of ​​being concerned not with poverty but with inequality has often been interpreted negatively. In fact, the idea of ​​a equitable society was a consistent theme in Confucius’s thought, consistent with his opposition to litigation and execution, and his theory of universal brotherhood. This article cites anthropological research and the political and economic […]

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Confucius, Mencius and Confucianism

Different Artistic Thoughts Between Two Classes of Society: A Look at the Different Attitudes of Confucius and Plato Towards Poetry

Yusheng’s “Learning Lamp” Issue 11 Abstract: Confucius and Plato both revered morality and ideals, yet they displayed drastically different attitudes towards poetry: the former enthusiastically affirmed it, while the latter completely rejected it. This reflects the different social environments of the East and West: Confucius lived before the emergence of a typical two-tiered society, while Plato’s ancient Greece had already […]

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Confucius, Mencius and Confucianism

Confucius, Mencius and Confucianism

Confucius and Mencius from the Perspective of Anarchist Ideology Li Yousheng Abstract: This paper argues, based on the definition of the state and the historical conditions for its emergence, that the dynasties of the three dynasties before the Warring States period in China, similar to the United Nations and the Roman Catholic Church in Europe, were not states in the […]

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Recalling My Youth in My Seventies, Part 5: Separated by Heaven and Earth, Yet Possessing a Profound Sentiment, I Recall the Other Half of My Twenty Years of School Life.

Separated by Heaven and Earth, Yet Possessing a Spirit of Unparalleled Passion: Reminiscing in His Seventies (Global Chinese Press, November 9, 2018, B4, Canadian Chinese Literature Issue 242) by Li Yousheng While living in London, Ontario, I met a man from Portugal, about my age. He told me that as a child he was obsessed with a mud toy that […]

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Reminiscing about the Past in My Seventies 4. My Childhood Life as a Traditional Chinese Peasant 2) The Clothing, Food, Housing, Transportation, and Lifestyle Characteristics of Rural Areas in the 1950s:

Local farmers grew cotton, and every household owned an old-fashioned spinning wheel (see Figure 1). Women spun thread, which was then woven into cloth. Farmers typically dyed the cloth black and blue in their own cooking pots before making clothes. Women also dyed the thread in various colors and used it for embroidery on women’s shoes and children’s clothes and […]

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Reminiscing about my childhood in my seventies, Part 3: Traditional Chinese peasant life in my childhood 1) Rural life where food is the most important thing for the people

In his poem “Watching the Wheat Harvest,” Bai Juyi wrote: “Farmers have few idle months; May is doubly busy. Last night, the south wind rose, and the wheat fields turned golden. Women and mothers-in-law carried baskets of food, and children carried jugs of water. They went together to the fields to deliver food, where the strong men were on the […]

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Reminiscing about the Past in My Seventies, Part 2: Human Hunting and Gathering Traditions as Seen Through the Games of Rural Children

(Li Yousheng, November 2017) Taoism advocates taking animals, children, and even infants as role models to pursue the realm of the true person. If today’s world represents civilized humanity transforming its innate playful traditions into real life, then six thousand years of civilization has been a game played out in earnest. Although we can see traces of playfulness in people’s […]

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Recalling My Youth in My Seventies: 1. My Earliest Memories

(Li Yousheng, November 2017) Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) once asked his patients to recall their early lives, that is, a person’s earliest memories. He found that they had great difficulty recalling experiences before the age of six to eight, a phenomenon he called childhood amnesia. This means that as adults, people forget memories they once possessed in their early years. It […]

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Reminiscing about the past in my seventies, Part 0: The Beginning

Li Yousheng (November 2017) Reflecting on my ordinary yet tumultuous life in my seventies, I realize that my emergence into the groundbreaking sociological theory of a two-tiered society during a period of despair in my later years was not accidental, but rather deeply intertwined with my life experiences. My earliest memory is a description of my father reading *Dream of […]

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The arduous and extraordinary War of Resistance Against Japan: The life stories of my father and grandfather

Li Yousheng Author’s Note: This is part of my book “Looking at Confucius from a Different Angle,” published in China in 2014. Not a single word is fictional; it is all fact. My father participated in underground anti-Japanese work in the Hebei Plain. Faced with a powerful enemy, anyone could defect or desert at any time. Anti-Japanese personnel could only […]

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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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