Morality

www.nytimes.com — “Turning away from Legalism and Mao is going to be a challenge, because they haven’t worked their way through the Mao period,” said Mr. Bellah...“In a curious way, it’s like the war guilt of Germany or Japan. I think in Germany they’ve come to terms with it, whereas in Japan there’s almost a dramatic lack of any sense of responsibility,” said Mr. Bellah...

chinahopelive.net — If you look at examples like the recent hit-and-run toddler death in light of the Great Leap Forward and its legacy (which includes the Cultural Revolution), contemporary Chinese society starts to make a little more sense. Just reading the 2010 "Mao's Great Famine" eats away at your humanity, but what if you'd lived through it?

globalspin.blogs.time.com — The lesson of Watergate—it's not the crime that gets you, it's the cover-up—isn't covered on China's driving test. But perhaps it should be. In recent months the Chinese public has been shocked by multiple cases of drivers killing accident victims in hopes of evading legal responsibilities.

www.chinahush.com — Yangze Evening news reported, on July 11 at noon, an old man felt on the ground while riding a tricycle on the Xinghua Yangshan Bridge. He lay on the ground and could not get up. For as long as 15 minutes, many people passed through there, some even stopped by and watched, but not one person gave the old man a hand to help him up. Why is that?