Table of Contents
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...FOREWORD TO THE AMERICAN EDITION | |
...INTRODUCTION FOR THE CHINESE READER | |
PART ONE: THE EIGHT BADS | |
01. | ...LIVING IN THE PAST Red Cultural Revolution and the New Left; "striking the big bell";
Political lag; the backward look. |
02. | ...PRACTICING DECEPTION Fooling infants; the faithless majority; the Watergate affair; schizoid
misfeasance in high places; secrecy. |
03. | ...EXALTING IDOLS "King Wen is on high";charisma of the president the typical American;
the life raft of equality; myth of the Constitution. |
04. | ...BECOMING DEPENDENT Old and new poverty; the blanket of dependency; "the three exponentials"
and "the four disproductions"; the Grotesque National Product;
ecological guilt. |
05. | ...DIVIDING THE SOUL AGAINST ITSELF Anomia and the sick society; diseases of authority; political community;
the strike of fire fighters; the locals and the cosmopolitans; the job-centered universe; in search of one's head; the wayward press. |
06. | ...SETTING ONE ABOVE ANOTHER The bureaucratic transformation of America; corporatism; how the rich
become socialist; leader worship leads to taxesis; expanding legalism;
industrial democracy; the super-rich. |
07. | ...SETTING ONE AGAINST ANOTHER Intelligence; aggressiveness; violence as an equalizer; party watchdogs;
Taoist decisions; the system of American contradictions. |
08. | ...BEING PROUD The human failure of the Mandate of Tien; pride goeth before world
destruction; megalomania and the Bomb; hyper-imperialism, decline, and
collapse. |
09. | ...CONCLUSION TO PART ONE: A CULTURE OF FORCE The bads of other lands; a culture by coercion; the American Dream
ended. |
...PART TWO THE EIGHT GOODS | |
01. | ...BEING HONEST The open character; the custom of confession; the intelligentsia; micro-property; free enterprise frees. |
02. | ...JOINING TOGETHER Participatory democracy; activists and leaders; voluntarism and the
independent sector. |
03. | ...SOLVING PROBLEMS A hundred flowers and schools; social solutions; doing all through
representation. |
04. | ...PRODUCING GOODS What to produce; organization without tears; exponential politics. |
05. | ...CARING FOR EVERYONE The birth and death of crowds; the social contract and life accounts;
true socialism; "the six cares"; the tax system. |
06. | ...DISPENSING JUSTICE Independent judges; the six plagues of injustice"; the rule of law. |
07. | ...MAKING FRIENDS The five roles in ta t'ung; how much America can give; who can give what
to America; fable of the bridge; the Golden Monkey. |
08. | ...RULING WELL The teacher and the police officer; when Americans act like Mao; the
twenty-three principles of a good constitution. |
09. | ...CONCLUSION TO PART TWO: A CULTURE OF FREEDOM The eight goods of other lands; how a free culture operates. |
10. | ...FINALE BEING HAPPY IN CHINA AND AMERICA Raising children with less and more; a day well spent; the final
contradiction. |
...BOOK NOTE: WHAT CHINESE SHOULD READ ABOUT AMERICA |