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The Confucian Gentleman

The Art of Manliness

CHAPTER

Remonstrance in a Hierarchy

In china and japan remonstrance is not a word that people can easily define. In a hierarchical system, it is the duty of the junior member of a hierarchy to correct and critique a more senior member. Early chinese kings and emperors did not like to be corrected. And yet this principle has remained all the way to the present. It's an extraordinary responsibility, and a very difficult one in practice.

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