Re: China: Mandate of heaven?

天将降大任于斯人也，必先苦其心志，劳其筋骨...

China is going to lead the world by showing the way of prosperity and
modernization to all developing countries. The Chinese government is
more and more popular both within the country and around the world by
the day. Western democracy is dying, China the Middle Kingdom is
rising. You are full of ****.


On Tue, 20 May 2008 16:39:06 -0700, "Albert K. Fung"
<akwfung@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>天道有常，不為堯存，不為桀亡 .... (荀子/天論篇)
>
>It was Mencius during the classical period of ancient China,
>who advanced that salient political concept of the Con****ian
>school, mandate of heaven. as the moral force for retraining
>the imperial power of the Middle Kingdom's monarchs.
>
>Calamities were deemed expressions of divine displeasure.
>
>And, it was the duty of the imperial astrologer to interpret
>and reveal the divine narrative. The ruler must find ways to
>placate the divine fury by redressing injustices perpetrated
>against the people. He was answerable to a higher power, and
>must rule in accordance with Dao: 應之以治則吉，應之以亂則凶
>
>CCP must take heed ....
>
>Regards,
>
>Albert K. Fung
>Casa Tres Palmas, Santa Ynez, California, USA.
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