Virtue, Confucius

我未見好仁者惡不仁者 好仁者無以尙之。

- 孔子

I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

- Confucius (孔子)

Advice, Cao Xueqin, Dream of the Red Chamber


好事多魔

- 曹雪芹, 紅樓夢

The good comes with the bad.

- Cao Xueqin (曹雪芹), Dream of the Red Chamber(紅樓夢)

Benevolence, Confucius, The Analects


仁者先難而後獲,可謂仁矣。

- 孔子, 論語 雍也

Benevolence involves being the first to volunteer for a difficult job and the last to think about rewards and recognition.

- Confucius, The Analects: Yong Ye(雍也)

Bloomberg: China Soft Landing May Be Hard for Commodity Exporters

Bloomberg

China Soft Landing May Be Hard for Commodity Exporters
By Bloomberg News - 2012.03.26 10:41 AM

The good news: China’s government will engineer a soft landing. The bad news: Even a soft landing is painful for industries that have become dependent on the world’s fastest-growing major economy as their main profit engine.

USA Today: Child's death prompts China to look at morals

Child's death prompts China to look at morals
By Calum MacLeod, USA TODAY

BEIJING – Road inspector Guo Mingyi donates his modest salary to the needy, has given blood 79 times, has worked five years' worth of overtime during the past 16 years and arrives two hours early, every day, to his job at a state-owned mining firm.

Finance: WSJ: China Risks Being Next Property-Bubble Blow Up

REAL ESTATE|JUNE 27, 2011
WSJ: China Risks Being Next Property-Bubble Blow Up

BEIJING—A recent decline in Chinese real-estate prices is starting to shake confidence in the country's economic vitality and open a debate about whether the country's economy is over-leveraged. That's what made the real-estate bubble's aftermath so painful for the U.S. and Japan.