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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, April 1, 1964
Flexibility Preserved Chinese Tradition
By Lee Stone
A non-western brand of flexible orthodoxy may have been instrumental in preserving Chinese tradition down to the present time. This special orthodoxy may still be operative behind a screen of Marxist orthodoxy.
That proposition was put forth last night in an address by Benjamin Wallacker, associate professor of Oriental languages and literature.
Prof. Wallacker, in the first of two lectures, traced the descent of Chinese orthodoxy. The first part was called "The Chinese Point of View."
THE SECOND part of the series, which will be delivered on April 14 by Robert Burton, East Asian Area Studies lecturer, is called "The Chinese Communist Point of View."
The traditional attitude of Chinese to non-Chinese has been: "It is lamentable that you are not Chinese," Prof. Wallacker said.
The Chinese invite the cultural
Language Institute To Be in Colorado
The oriental language department announced that KU and the University of Colorado, with cooperation from Washington University at St. Louis, will sponsor a summer language institute to be held on the Colorado campus at Boulder.
The summer institute, which is held from June 13-Aug.24, offers intensive instruction at the beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels in Chinese and Japanese.
The institute is supported by matching funds provided by the United States Office of Education under the National Defense Education Act.
Mitsue Shibata and Chi-chou Huang, members of KU's oriental language department, will participate in the institute.
All interested students may contact Professor Benjamin Wallacker, 7St-F.
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outsider to share in the glories of Chinese culture, government, and values, but they do not much worry about the outsider's non-participation, Prof. Wallacker said.
WHAT IS IT the Chinese are so proud of? Prof. Wallacker said, Chinese traditions have remained essentially unchanged for 2500 years. The continuity in their customs and government have given them confidence in their ways, Prof. Wallacker said.
What are essentially Chinese traditions began when city-states were established in the Yellow River Valley. A succession of city-states came to dominate the valley which were eventually known as Hsia state. The Hsia state was feudal, "but feudal with a tremendously long footnote explaining it was not Western feudalism," Prof. Wallacker said.
Chinese influence spread south from the Yellow River to the barbarians by whom the Chinese were eventually threatened, Prof. Wallacker said. For about a thousand years, control of the government passed from one city-state to another. In about 500 B.C., a debate arose on how the society should be organized to preserve itself, Prof. Wallacker said.
THE MAIN contending philosophies were Mohism, Confucianism, Legalism or totalitarianism, and Taoism, Prof. Wallacker said.
The Confucianists believed in a "unity in society." "Society was expected to persist when all men agreed to have similar ways of doing things," Prof. Wallacker said. "If we all realize we are 'fellows', no one would bother us because all barbarians would want to be like us," the philosophy claimed, Prof. Wallacker said.
"Love each other and how can there be strife?" was the Mohist's pronouncement in life, Prof. Wallacker said. This philosophy didn't last long.
TAOISM WAS also formulated during this period, a period known in China as the "Time of Hundred Schools." That is, a time when a hundred philosophies flourished, Prof. Wallacker said.
Taoism put forth the idea that all men were part of a "transcendental unity." This philosophy offered "more to the individual than to the individual as a member of society." Prof. Wallacker said.
When China was unified by a legalist state, the Ch'in state, it went through a true social revolution. The Ch'in state was quickly overthrown but once "having gotten into the saddle, it burned all books," especially Confucian books, Wallacker said.
BOOK BURNING was not so much directed at Confucian books but at any kind of separatism. "The Ch'in state had not provided China with a system of values, it had only destroyed political separatism," Prof. Wallacker said.
The Ch'in state was followed by the Han dynasty which completed China's social revolution. It is from the Han state that adopted Confucianism as its official doctrine that the continuing Chinese tradition has sprung, Prof. Wallacker said.
The land-owning class was dispossessed and a new ruling class was instituted. But most important, Chinese officialdom was reformed along the lines of a civil service. To enter Chinese officialdom a job-seeker had to pass examination based on "Confucian textual material." Prof. Wallacker said.
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“A heresy requires a jealous Jehovah kind of God.” Wallacker said.
OTHER DYNASTIES did replace the Han but the civil service and Chinese traditions remained intact thereafter, Prof. Wallacker said.
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In the Judeao-Christian tradition, with its commitment to a single set of values, heresies can arise. This was not possible under Confucian traditions, Prof. Wallacker said.
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IN THE WEST, we tend to become concerned when official figures do not espouse the proper personal and religious beliefs. Wallacker termed this an "exclusion-of-belief-and-value system."
Whether or not the communists have changed all that will be the subject of the next lecture by Robert Burns.
At work the Chinese civil servant was a Confucianist, "at home and on weekends" he could be anything he wanted without the feeling that he was committing a heresy. He could be Buddhist, Taoist or whatever, on his own time, Wallacker said.
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Even though the power at the top of Chinese officialdom may have passed from a belief in Confucianism as a whole it remained Confucian in its outlook.
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