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
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