In the streets of Hong Kong today, China’s future is meeting its past. It’s 17 year-old rebellious student Joshua Wong, who is leading the Umbrella Revolution protests, versus Confucius, the sage of order and “social harmony,” whose 2565th birthday was just emphatically celebrated by Xi Jinping in Beijing last week.
To put this historic crossroads into perspective, The WorldPost publishes excerpts of Xi Jinping’s remarkable speech on the anniversary of Confucius’ birthday, which amounts to an official rehabilitation of ancient Confucian thought as the guiding light of modern China.
From Hong Kong, WorldPost China correspondent Matt Sheehan reports from …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
