Confucianism

Shanghai Film Fest: Q&A with director Jean-Jacques Annaud

2012-06-15 16:39:38

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Business Bookshelf: A mangled guide to surviving digital Darwinism

2012-01-08 00:00:00

<![CDATA[Business Bookshelf: A mangled guide to surviving digital Darwinism]]>

In China, L.A.'s Mayor Villaraigosa promotes language program

2011-12-05 16:38:52

<![CDATA[In China, L.A.'s Mayor Villaraigosa promotes language program]]>

Coffee-table books

2011-12-04 00:00:00

Art Nouveau Norbert Wolf Prestel, $75 The Art Nouveau movement covered it all — decorative arts, architecture, fashion, dance, advertising and more — and this book seeks to restore the movement's prominence in the discussion of modern art....

Piri Thomas dies at 83; Latino writer

2011-10-23 00:00:00

For Piri Thomas, being a dark-hued Latino in 1930s New York was far from the best of worlds. His siblings were fair-skinned, like his Puerto Rican mother, but he took after his black Cuban father, whose unsettled feelings about race scarred both of them....

'The Amazing Race' recap: ready, set, go!

2011-09-26 21:36:41

Matthew McConaughey, Michael Connelly talk 'The Lincoln Lawyer' over beers

2011-03-13 00:00:00

Matthew McConaughey has just cracked open his second Corona when the man wearing Mardi Gras beads and a Village People policeman's cap approaches his car. "Do you know Duane?" the inebriated-looking man asks with suspicion, poking his head inside the...

Book review: 'Vietnamerica' by GB Tran

2011-01-30 00:00:00

Vietnamerica A Family's Journey GB Tran Villard: 179 pp., $30 Where does memory end and myth begin? GB Tran's graphic novel "Vietnamerica: A Family's Journey" occupies the messy middle ground of that question. Born in 1976 in South Carolina, Tran was...

Book review: 'The Future of Power' by Joseph S. Nye Jr.

2011-03-25 00:00:00

In January, Chinese President Hu Jintao was in Washington. And while he and President Obama forged ahead on trade deals and wink-to-the-press bromides of cooperation, many Americans are not so optimistic about what China's rise means. In a recent poll,...

Monster Mash: 'Spider-Man' delays opening again; MoMA acquires art censored by Smithsonian

2011-01-14 16:32:52

Let the children learn Chinese

2010-04-09 00:00:00

The Times' April 4 article on Beijing's funding of a Los Angeles-area school district's Chinese language and culture program was disturbing -- not because of the program itself, but because of the knee-jerk xenophobia of its most vocal opponents. As The...

'Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty' by Tony Hoagland

2010-03-07 00:00:00

Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty Poems Tony Hoagland Graywolf: 100 pp., $15 paper Despite being a poet, Tony Hoagland has maintained an unprejudiced relationship with language. With the same casual delivery as his contemporaries, Dean...

A bust of the Chinese philosopher Confucius lies on the ground in an abandoned stone carving workshop in the town of Dangcheng in Quyang county, located 250 km (155 miles) southwest of Beijing.

2011-12-07 00:00:00

Traditional South Korean dancers perform in a twice-yearly event entitled the "The Great Confucian Ceremony" to honour the ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius at a shrine in Seoul.

2011-09-28 00:00:00

Garrison Forest senior Lesha Ouyang plays a Guqin at the dedication of a new Confucius Classroom at the Garrison Forest middle school.

2011-01-31 00:00:00