Confucianism in a Nutshell for American interests

Confucianism is system of ethics and as a philosophy of life. We have associated with the quiet, virtues of patience, and compromise, the golden mean; reverence for the ancestors, the aged, and the learned, and, above all, a mellow humanism -taking homo sapiens as the center of the universe. In short, "Yirenweiben" in Pin Yin system of romanization. Francis Shieh a.k.a. Xie Shihao, the doyen in the fields of economics and China studies apropos of language and culture, a teacher since 1945 to date. November 1, 2007 at 3.19 p.m.