• Flyberius [comrade/them]
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    2 months ago

    My mum used to tell me all these borderline problematic fake confucius sayings when I was growing up.

    Things like “Go to bed with an itchy bum, wake up with a smelly finger”.

    I was being taken round a Confucian temple in Yunnan in March and told some of them to our guide, who thought they were absolutely hilarious. Anyway, stupid anecdote.

      • jackmarxist [any]
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        242 months ago

        It is lol. Apparently restricting use of technology makes the progress towards newer better tech slower.

    • dkr567 [comrade/them, he/him]
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      522 months ago

      They really don’t have a single clue how R&D works and the amount of collaboration(“stealing” according to libshits) there are.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      2 months ago

      it’s white supremacist brainworms, they cannot conceive of the untermensch having already surpassed them

      • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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        42 months ago

        I’m 97% sure the whole “China is stealing our research” bit is pure cope, and you’re spot on that it’s mostly that a nation built on slavery is scared shitless about the idea of calling a non-white majority country a peer. We already saw them do the same to Japan in around the 70s, and why younger chuds seem to try to reconcile their weebishness with their white supremacy.

        frothingfash “Japan, you are an honorary aryan, but only because your cartoons amuse the great white man, peasant!”

  • @BestBouclettes
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    712 months ago

    Pretty fucking funny considering Confucius is like the father of Conservatism. The OG “it was better before”.

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        2 months ago

        For China, stability above everything else.

        To understand this, you need to understand the history of China, where periods of instability always leads to chaos. For example, the Chinese revolution in 1911 immediately led to the Warlord era where China was carved into multiple fiefdoms engaged in constant civil wars, which in turn created an opening for the Japanese to invade.

        Once you understand this, you will understand why China always try to move things conservatively, even to its own detriment at times. You will understand why China preferred Tiananmen Square crackdown even in the face of international media.

        For a country with a huge population of 1.4 billion people, losing control of the ability to provide stable livelihood to a billion people can very quickly give rise to disastrous consequences.

    • Droplet [comrade/them]
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      442 months ago

      I find it interesting that China has been trying to get rid of Confucius since the radical New Cultural Movement (e.g. Chen Duxiu’s “The New Youth” and the May Fourth Movement in the 1910s, blaming the trite conservatism of Confucianism for the failure of the Qing empire to modernize and subsequently allowing China to fall victim to colonial exploitation.

      Late stage Mao also tried to get rid of Confucianism during the Cultural Revolution. But it the end Confucius always make a come back. He has stood the test of time for thousands of years.

      • @BestBouclettes
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        132 months ago

        I suppose that Confucianism is partly to blame, it’s the respect of ancient values and traditions at pretty much all cost. It’s very ingrained in Chinese culture.

      • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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        72 months ago

        Mao should’ve followed the example of Wang Anshi, who introduced Legalist concepts and principles into the imperial bureaucracy while calling himself a Neoconfucian. There’s the criticism by Confucians that the imperial dynasties were never actually Confucian (外儒内法), and I mostly see post-Mao CPC continuing the tradition of giving the airs of a Confucian society without actually being a Confucian society.

    • 7bicycles [he/him]
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      232 months ago

      The same claim was made when China was sending students here, which was then also wrong, which pretty much leaves it pretty open that if it involves both china and academia in some way you start at “they’re stealing our research” and work yourself backwards into whatever it actually is china is doing

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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      142 months ago

      pretty sure they’d be filial to the younger side of gen Xers, millenials, and like the handful of zoomers that’re parents since boomers are stepping well into the grave at this point.

  • Lerios [hy/hym]
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    402 months ago

    i genuinely do not have a single higher goal as an academic than being able to conduct at least some of my research in china (well, aside from stopping climate change, but lets be real i have by far the best chance of doing that there anyway). xi please confucinize me powercry-1 xi-plz