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The Real China Model

Tuesday, November 13th, 2012

To what extend was premodern Chinese political culture “meritocratic,” as some political commentators suggested? Read this incisive article appearing on today’s New York Times by Mark Elliott, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History at Harvard University, and find out the answer: Photo: 新刊邵榜眼評選舉業捷學宇宙文芒 (Sinʾgan So pangan pʻyŏngsŏn kŏŏpchʻŏphak uju munmang), Korea, 1850-1899. […]

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Why the Confucian Analects Is Not as Old as We Might Think?

Monday, November 12th, 2012

Why the Confucian Analects Is Not as Old as We Might Think? Professor Michael Hunter from Yale University will give a talk in Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard and tell you why. But no matter how old the Analects is, it is certainly old enough to be read by thousands of millions of […]

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