World Domination? Fine Brothers ignored first lesson in business: Don’t tell everyone, just do it!
“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt”. -Sun Tzu, The Art of War Lesson for […]
Desperate Ai Weiwei steals show from dead toddler on the beach
NOW we are aware of the refugees’ plight! Thank you fat arrogant man. Ai Weiwei steals the show from the dead Syrian toddler. Talking about […]
East-West Dichotomy spotted in Hong Kong University Library (2016)
TO BE PRECISE, this is about the Foreign Language Press 2013 edition. The first draft of ‘The East-West Dichotomy’ was written in 2006 at Edinburgh […]
Bill Wurtz’s ‘History of Japan’ Goes Viral (9 minutes of creative genius!) [Video]
TOKYO – Everyone’s hysterical about this over-simplified, yet amazingly clarifying genius video about the ‘History of Japan’ made by a certain voice artist Bill Wurtz who’s […]
RE: The Totalitarian Doctrine of ‘Social Justice Warriors’
CULTURAL POLICING – Great piece by Cathy Young at The Observer. But something is (still) missing: These ‘Social Justice Warriors’ (SJW) are not just terrorizing […]
NY Times Progapanda Shames Chinese Women For Seeking Early Marriage
DIVIDE and conquer, destroy the enemy’s soldiers, burn their fields, and take their women. This is more or less the time-proven formula of war and […]
The Greatest Propaganda Show on Earth
COPENHAGEN – Western media, our press agencies and legions of press soldiers, have evolved into a global syndicate: corrupt, cooptated, and agenda-driven. Normally, we don’t […]
Ai Weiwei is a Big Bad Bully
“It’s unreasonable to punish an entire country and its people for the politics of its government.” — Erlend G. Hoyersten, director KOPENHAGEN – Ai Weiwei is […]
White Swedish Dude in Distress! China Alert!! Western Press in Killer Mode!!!
Just upfront: I am not saying he is guilty or innocent. The courts must decide that. Alas, the media can’t wait, right? * BEIJING – […]
Taoism in European Culture – Everyone’s a ‘China Expert’
THE OTHER European powers, meanwhile, saw their opportunities slipping through their hands: They envied the Anglo-Saxons immensely for their cultural sway. Richard Wilhelm, the ‘James […]
Political LEGO – Toymaker Kowtows to Ai Weiwei Activism
BILLUND – Crushed by social justice warriors and nude activist Ai Weiwei (following his demands for prompt delivery of a massive ‘bulk order’ of toy […]
Taoism in European Culture – Translation is Tao Power
WHAT goes on within Europe largely over the heads of the Asian scholars is a battle over what the Germans call ‘Deutungshoheit’ –meaning the competition for […]
Taoism in European Culture – The Competition for Taoist Terminologies
JAMES LEGGE, the Scottish sinologist and Oxford University professor, and a representative for the London Missionary Society, became the most famous ‘translator’ of Chinese works, […]
Taoism in European Culture – Academic Taoism
LET us now discuss the “discovery” of Taoism by European scholars, most of whom were also missionaries. Their first systematic contact with the Chinese civilization […]
Taoism in European Culture – Tao Trademarks, Brands, Idols
TAOISM may also be less “visible” than Buddhism in Europe, mainly because of the countless Buddha images. One can purchase a clay Buddha from any garden […]
Taoism in European Culture – Trickle Trickle Euro Tao
PERHAPS the finest allegory of Tao is that it resembles water: “Instead of contending with things, it prefers to dwell where no one would like […]
Star Wars is Chinese Taoism
Trigger Warning: This Article Contains Chinese Loanwords BEIJING – George Lucas’s multi-billion dollars STAR WARS franchise, now owned by the Disney Company, is going to be very […]
Forest Grace: Why the West is so violent
Christianity not a religion of peace? It’s certainly prone to violence, says Forest Grace “When it comes to violence, a stark contrast has always existed […]