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Originally Posted by aron
From Teresa Zimmerman-Liu's paper:
For Kipnis (1997:8) what is actualized in guanxi rituals is the network of relationships that “in fact constitute one’s self” and the “families, villages, and perhaps any other social group one could name.” Thus, guanxi
practices and relationships form the warp and weft of Chinese societies, and foreign institutions, such as capitalism or Christianity must negotiate their form with respect to guanxi rituals, when they enter a Chinese society.
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Originally Posted by aron
I think that if you never get this stuff you'll never understand the LC.
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Ya got that right. Just understanding the Chinese words "quanxi" and "Ganqing" opens a deeper understanding of Lee's system, or a deeper ganqing."
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Originally Posted by from Wiki
"The term gǎnqíng is often used in comments by the government of the People's Republic of China, and is sometimes mistranslated[citation needed] when used in this context. Often one will see a statement that an action "hurts the feelings of the Chinese people."[1] This statement is better translated as an action that "offends the Chinese people."[citation needed] When used in this context the statement is actually implicitly threatening that should the action continue, cooperation would not be forthcoming in the future.
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"hurts the feelings of the Chinese people" sounds a whole like "hurts the feelings of body" bantered about by LC leadership.
The body metaphor in the New Testament may be communistic, but it's head is Christ, that's obvious in the metaphor (we aren't actually the physical body of Christ).
'Offends the Chinese people' and 'offends the body' would be abstracts that would easily mingle in Lee's mind. It would come as natural as walking and breathing to Lee. In essence, Lee couldn't help but bring the Chinese model to the west. It constituted him. He picked it up in his cult-ure. He saw it with deep gǎnqíng.
I've always thought the LC's exemplar model was the Rome Catholic Church. That just proves I think in western terms.
But now I see the exemplar model was really the Chinese system. "Authority and Submission" by Nee, is exactly that system.