Thread by @GeringTuvia

Not only that, but also China's "civilizational" superiority, e.g., the recent article by Xie Maosong, a senior research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' China Institute for Innovation and Development Strategy (IIDS) and senior fellow at the Taihe Institute.
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https://twitter.com/MichaelSchuman/status/1490279152372617218

Xie has written an article highlighting the "civilizational significance" of the Beijing Winter Olympics in a mishmash of geopolitical strategic analysis mishmashed with convoluted Chinese exceptionalism based on the classics, particularly based on the Book of Changes (I Ching)2/

This text, which dates from the Western Zhou period (1000-750 BCE), has been used by the people of East Asia for over a millennia to guide how to count and interpret yarrow wood stalks for divination and advice. Watch this excellent demonstration: .
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Xie argues that "The more the US tries to suppress the Beijing Winter Olympics, the more it demonstrates to the world the US's deep fear of Chinese wisdom, practice, and solutions demonstrated by the Chinese Way.
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"At the same time, it allows other developing countries around the world to be inspired by Chinese wisdom, practice, and solutions,
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"just as the profound civilizational wisdom of the 'Contemplation/Viewing' hexagram (䷓, Guan) teaches us, that when 'the great Manifester (the sovereign) ascends', all 'below look to him in reverence and are transformed.'
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The hexagram ䷓, according to Hellmut Wilhelm, is shaped like a tower/gate (think of a Japanese torii), which in the old days was placed on top of a hill as a vantage point for the surroundings as well as a landmark for the people below, visible from miles away:
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"Thus the hexagram shows a ruler who contemplates the law of heaven above him and the ways of the people below, and who, by means of good government, sets a lofty example to the masses."
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19th-century sinologist and translator of the I Ching, James Legge, says that the two upper and undivided lines represent the sovereign, while the four weak lines below them depict his subjects, who view him in reverence.
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Each hexagram comes with a statement called 彖 tuàn, which is used to determine the results of the divination. Xie quotes the entire tuan of the Contemplation/Viewing (Guan) hexagram (trans. by Legge):
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The great Manifester occupies an upper place (in the figure), which consists of (the trigrams whose attributes are) docility and flexibility. He is in the central position and his correct place, and thus exhibits (his lessons) to all under Heaven.
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"'Guan shows its subject like a worshipper who has washed his hands, but not (yet) presented his offerings; - with sincerity and an appearance of dignity (commanding reverent regard):' - (all) beneath look to him and are transformed.
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"When we contemplate the spirit-like way of Heaven, we see how the four seasons proceed without error. The sages, in accordance with (this) spirit-like way, laid down their instructions, and all under heaven yield submission to them."
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Thus, adds Xie, "the Winter Olympics in Beijing will have civilizational historical significance."
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Link: guancha.cn/xiemaosong/202…