China and Confucius an empty chair in Oslo, in Beijing
return of the great Confucius
. So
China has tried to manage the 'accident'
Liu Xiaobo, the Nobel Prize for Peace held in a Chinese prison for "inciting subversion of state power '.
While the Nobel Committee and the Western world celebrated
Liu "for his long and violent struggle for basic human rights in China" (the emphasis on non-violence was the ploy to give it a prize for peace) Beijing gave the baby
Confucius Prize for Peace in Lien Chan, former vice president of Taiwan
and honorary leader of the Nationalist Party
, "to have built a bridge of peace between Mainland China and Taiwan." E 'primarily a political and strategic choice
. Rewarding a prominent member of the Nationalist Party, Taiwan reward means
also symbolically reconstruct ancient
conflicts in the name of the new China as well as being a global economic power
intends to exercise his influence over the entire Asia orientale.Ai Chinese interested in the Nobel
West but want to have a say in . If not do it alone. What is even deeper and more important, the area around the Confucius Prize
cultural : here is the Chinese civilization, we need your values \u200b\u200bif you
them waved at us . Explicitly designed to "interpret the idea of peace according to the Chinese people ", the award is part of the continuing boom of Confucius
which - in the form of re
Guoxue or "national studies fever" - the Dragon
fills the void left by the end of Maoism .
But what is Confucianism? In political terms mainly two things: on
and
virtue.
Daniel A. Bell, a professor of political philosophy at Tsinghua University in Beijing, is an expert on the subject. Author of "China's New Confucianism," studied for years both theoretical and practical aspects - that is, in everyday life - the phenomenon.
same
Communist Party - says Bell - now applies a merit-based selection criterion
: it co-opt the most capable, not the most faithful to the line. It 's a result of
gradual generational shift from the old guard to new Maoist technocrats to
Hu Jintao. Meanwhile, in academia - including the school of the same party - is processed
political alternative to Western democracy
but does not necessarily mean
authoritarianism.
The gist of it is a criticism of the democratic mechanisms
as tools of exclusion . For the reformers neoconfuciani, the system of "one person, one vote" has a major limitation: it implies the idea of \u200b\u200bequality
that stops at national borders and that not protect future generations. I and my fellow citizens choose here and now. But in an increasingly globalized world, where policies have long-term effects, the community of people, especially leaders of large countries, end up deciding for others, be they foreign or posterity.
An example might be to those who believe that the U.S. presidential election
should vote for people throughout the world . A provocation? The thinkers of the Chinese take very serio.Il
best way to achieve political ideals "global" is according to these scholars on the
, Confucian understood. The positions of leadership should therefore be assigned to more capable and virtuous members
community through the mechanism of
examinations: a sort of elite
but resting on '
equality of opportunity in access to education.
In practice this would be a mixed system
: "our" democracy
for some areas, the meritocracy
for others. On issues such as distribution of land to the peasants
or
wage levels in factories, the people involved would say
(more than they have today).
on issues like foreign policy and environmental protection - which also cover non-voters - the neoconfuciani speculate la creazione di una "
camera del merito " dove deputati selezionati attraverso il meccanismo degli esami rappresenterebbero
interessi più universali .Come è possibile valutare le
virtù confuciane - senso della
collettività ,
flessibilità ,
umiltà e
compassione - attraverso gli esami? Secondo il principale pensatore neoconfuciano,
Jiang Qing , la selezione dovrebbe creare il contesto e il "
vocabolario morale " delle successive azioni politiche. In seguito, il candidato dovrebbe essere giudicato, una volta in carica, sulla base dei suoi
atti pratici . Gabrielle Battaglia
source Peacereporter
