China General Discussion

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Yeah, this is totally the socialist way to treat the indigent.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Yeah, this is totally the socialist way to treat the indigent.

With Chinese characteristics, of course.

Naturally.

It wouldn't even have been considered particularly Confucian for...millennia.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I believe I once identified 'that godawful Fa Jia ideology from the Spring and Autumn Period' as the real governing philosophy of modern China, not communism, Confucianism, or any combination thereof, and I stand by that.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

You could just say "legalism", there's no need to be obscurantist.

The only reason I prefer the Chinese term is because 'legalism' is also a common abstract English noun. Then again, since I'm specifying 'godawful', 'Chinese ideology', and 'Spring and Autumn Period', you're probably right.

Finally, a decade and a half after pointing this out to my Chinese History professor and getting rebuffed, I can bask in the content glow that I'm not alone.