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This chapter attempts to examine some teleological aspects of the scheme from the perspective of Confucianism as a harmony-conscious cultural heritage. Thus, it will look into the following points: what the Chinese people think; the guidelines of the experimental project; the orientations of the harmonious society; the importance and measurement of harmony; the problems with the social experimentation without a solid basis of justice and rule of law.
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Cf. http://www.baike.baidu.com, see also “harmonious society”, http://www.wikipedia.org.
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Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies: The Spell of Plato (London: Routledge, 2005), pp. 166–173.
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Li Zehou, Zhongguo gudai sixiang shi lun [Essays on Ancient Chinese Thoughts] (Beijing: Renmin Press, 1986), pp. 303–306; also see Li Zehou, “Guanyu shiyong lixing” [About Pragmatic Reason], in Shiyong lixing yu legan wenhua [Pragmatic Reason and a Culture of Optimism] (Beijing: Sanlian Bookshop, 2005), pp. 325–332.
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K. L. Kiu (ed.), “Yanzi chunqiu” [Historical Anecdotes of Yanzi], in 100 Ancient Chinese Fables (Beijing: Zhongguo Duiwai Fanyi Chuban Gongsi, 1991), pp. 144–145.
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Wang, K. (2019). The Harmonious Society in Question. In: Harmonism as an Alternative. Key Concepts in Chinese Thought and Culture. Palgrave Pivot, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3564-8_14
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