Abstract
There is no doubt that the Chinese (Communist) mind is dialectical. We can trace it back to TaiJiTu (diagram of cosmological scheme), if not earlier, or what I call the grand diagram in this study. By looking at this dot, four other smaller dots can be derived, such as my dialectical crab and frog motion model, which was first built in September 1994, constituting 1 + 4, with 1 referring to the grand diagram and 4, the small diagrams.
Each diagram, grand or smaller, will be described, explained, and inferred in detail. The most complicated and complex one is my crab and frog motion model. Reasons will be given to justify the application of the 1 + 4 diagrams. In the applied section, I will introduce a diagram as shown in Fig. 1.6, which can enable us to divide a case study’s sections in terms of those grand and smaller diagrams. For example, the second section of the case study is equivalent to the pure circle, and the fifth, (a series of) the 1 2 3 4 5 A B C D E model. If relevant information, (scientific and technical) data, and analysis can be slotted into those diagrams, it will mean that my one-dot theory is rigorous, able to meet future tests, and closer to the Chinese (Communist) logic(s).
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When I was writing my doctoral dissertation, I strongly felt that Beijing leaders were adopting a version of Yin and Yang when they face Washington and Moscow leaders.
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http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071006074310AASdPjs, Accessed 18 Sept 2012.
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I wish to thank an anonymous reviewer for helping me to clarify the purpose of writing this book.
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http://baike.baidu.com/view/48746.htm, Accessed 16 Sept 2012.
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See my selected publications: Hu Jintao and the ascendancy of China: A dialectical study, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish International Academic Publishing, 2005; The crab and frog motion paradigm shift: Decoding and deciphering Taipei and Beijing’s dialectical Politics, Lanham: University Press of America, 2002; Peter Kien-hong Yu and W. Emily Chow, “The emergence of the Fifth Generation of Beijing’s Leadership, Asian Affairs, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Summer 2008), pp. 95–116; and “Beijing Versus Taipei Under the ‘One China’ Principle: A Dialectical and Scientific Analysis” in Ho Khai Leong and Hou Kok Chung, eds., Ensuring Interests: China-Taiwan Relations and Southeast Asia (Kuala Lumpur: Institute of China Studies, University of Malaya, 2006), pp. 45–76. In late 2000, I showed the first chart (Fig. 1.3) to a division head at the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) in Taipei, and the head said he had been working at the MAC for 10 years, and he had never seen such a chart.
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Jiang Chunqi said we can also add analogy. Email from him, dated November 8, 2013.
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See Weinberg 1977. The author is the winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physics.
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There is dialectics in deduction, such as saying one the one hand and on the other hand.
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http://news.webindia123.com/news/Articles/World/20121205/2113594.html, Accessed 8 Dec 2012.
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http://big5.xinhuanet.com/gate/big5/news.xinhuanet.com/newscenter/2004-02/24/content_1329728.htm., Accessed 6 Sept 2014.
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http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_2.htm, Accessed 9 Dec 2012.
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Other synonyms are: golden mean, road, path, line, and track.
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I came across the following New York Times (NYT) report title: “Can the Frog Jump Before the Water Boils?” and the last sentence, “Chinese politics is full of pragmatists, like anywhere else, and the next decade will show if the frog gets boiled alive or if it hops out of the pot.” See http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/world/asia/20iht-letter20.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&_moc.semityn.www, Accessed 24 Sept 2012. In June 2013, my student, Lin Lien Hsiung, alerted me, saying there is one crab, which does not walk sideways. It is called ZhongHuaHuTouXie in Mandarin Chinese or Orithyia sinica in Latin, which is "tiger face crab."
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Zheng, fan, shun, ni, zhen, and wei. There are many dots in the world. For example, each of a Polka dot means “each of a number of round dots evenly spaced to form a pattern on fabric.” See Oxford Student’s Dictionary, p. 792.
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One perfect example is that of the landmark passage of the March 2007 Property Law of the PRC by the National People’s Congress (NPC) after 14 years of debates. The law is in between 5 and A.
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Crabs can also have XiaoShuiBu (quick short steps). In other words, they can move straight forward. See United Daily News (UDN, Taipei), February 12, 2007, p. A10. In Yilang County, Taiwan Province, ROC, there is a crab museum. Not all crabs can be eaten because some of them are poisonous. Poison could be dangerous. See Formosa Television (Taiwan, ROC), dated February 7, 2008.
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http://www.epochtimes.com/b5/5/3/21/n859745.htm, Accessed 8 Aug 2012 and http://baike.baidu.com/view/16550.htm, Accessed 16 Sept 2012.
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http://www.nciku.cn/search/zh/detail/%E6%97%A0%E4%B8%BA%E8%80%8C%E6%B2%BB/125928, Accessed 9 Dec 2012.
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It is not clear when he was born. Many academics say the Spring and Autumn Period or 771–475 BCE.
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551–479 BCE.
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http://tw.knowledge.yahoo.com, Accessed 5 Nov 2012.
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Zhuangzi lived around the fourth century Before the Common Era (BCE) during the Warring States Period. He put forward the phrase, YuShiJuHua. The Chinese Communists changed the last Chinese character to read jin. Liu WenDian was the secretary of Dr. Sun Yat-sen. He studied Zhuangzi’s philosophy. He said there are only 2.5 people in the world who understand the philosophy. One is him. The other is Zhuangzi himself. And the third one who understood only 50 % is a Japanese. See http://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers/%E8%8F%AF%E5%BA%9C%E7%9C%8B%E5%A4%A9%E4%B8%8B%EF%BC%8D%E5%8A%89%E6%96%87%E5%85%B8%E8%B8%A2%E4%B8%AD%E8%94%A3%E4%BB%8B%E7%9F%B3LP-20130719000999-260109, Accessed 19 July 2013.
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http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/methodology, Accessed 28 Feb 2012 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodology, Accessed 29 Feb 2012.
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See Clough and Nutbrown 2002.
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See Weisman 2007.
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See Yu and Lee 2011.
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are, as of January 2010, worldwide more than 209 countries as well as overseas territories and communities.
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To the reviewer of this chapter, a theory is “a simplified replication of reality.” See the email from the Palgrave-Macmillan publisher, dated November 28, 2012. To me, it is either simplification or compression of reality.
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YU, Ph. (2015). Introduction: One-Dot Theory Described, Explained, Inferred, Justified, and Applied. In: Ocean Governance, Regimes, and the South China Sea Issues. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-329-3_1
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