http://justrecently.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/political-confucianism-and-the-new-york-times-domestic-audience-foreign-audience-who-cares-as-long-as-zhongnanhai-listens/ China Sat, 18 May 2013 05:44:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://justrecently.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/political-confucianism-and-the-new-york-times-domestic-audience-foreign-audience-who-cares-as-long-as-zhongnanhai-listens/#comment-54807 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:14:31 +0000 http://justrecently.wordpress.com/?p=31540#comment-54807 [...] Chinese intellectual debates meant for domestic use are frequently more interesting than those about image-building abroad. That a bit of it emerged in an internationally-read paper, the New York Times, doesn’t necessarily mean that foreigners were the actual target readership. Jiang Qing, a hardcore Confucian (by his own standards, and depending on what you think Confucianism is about), and Daniel A. Bell published an op-ed on the NYT’s online edition on July 10: “A Confucian Constitution for China”. Bizarre (and possibly funny) stuff from a foreign perspective. Bizarre, too, but also worrying stuff from a secular Chinese perspective. Worrying, because in the last resort, the only readership that really matters is Zhongnanhai. [...]

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