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Dors's avatar

Yes, Professor Lian Si(廉思) sounds as a thoughtful and empathic person, just as you described him.

In the text, there is one aspect of what has been said that fills me with confusion and concern.

That aspect is expressed in these three quotes:

* "These youth [....] want a [....] law-based society"

* [Professor Lian Si:] "We can consider introducing the "Youth Development Promotion Law" "

* "We should earnestly implement the important requirements of the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on "comprehensively promoting the rule of law in all aspects of the country's work"

What I would like is a discussion or a comment :

1) What makes the present-day Chinese youth and Communist Party of China want to promote the rule of law while the Western world that has been the rule of law's greatest promoter is falling apart in lawlessness before our eyes?

2) What do they think of Confucius' teachings about law, for example in Analects 2.3?

3) How does Professor view Tao de Ching and especially its chapter 57?

Or if it's too many questions, let's put it simply : How do they see the relationship between the rule based on law on one hand, and the rule of virtue on the other hand?

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Maxim Berdichevsky's avatar

Thanks for doing this translation Fred. It is an interesting piece, that highlights to me a serious concern about how the "post modern" values seem to affect the views of the regime about its own stability.

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