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  • Ancient teachings aid modern lifestyles

    2017-09-19

    Two years ago, a 50-square-meter room in Sandefan village of Jinan, the capital city of East China's Shandong province, was rarely visited by local residents.

  • Making a song and dance about the sage

    2017-09-19

    Beating out a rapid rhythm with a pair of bamboo clappers, Kong Fanxi spoke quickly as he related a Confucian story in the dialect used by residents of Qufu, a city in Shandong province that is famous as the birthplace of Confucius.

  • Sage words of an ancient master

    2017-09-19

    Lead them by means of regulations and keep order among them through punishments, and the people will evade them and will lack any sense of shame. Lead them through moral force (de) and keep order among them through rites (li), and they will have a sense of shame and will also correct themselves.

  • Who was Confucius?

    2017-09-19

    "Confucius" (551-479 BC) is the Latinized version of Kong Fuzi, or "Master Kong".

  • Education aims to lower rate of reoffending

    2017-09-19

    When the reoffending rate was introduced as an important factor in the evaluation of prisons in 2008, the Bureau of Prison Management introduced a range of courses designed to help ex-inmates stay on the straight and narrow when they re-enter society.

  • Reviving traditional Chinese archery

    2017-09-18

    If you had been at Daming Lake, a major scenic spot in Jinan, capital of East China's Shandong province, on April 2, then you may have come across an unusual sight - several people dressed in Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) costumes firing bows and arrows by the lakeside.