The Useless Tree

China Daily: Confucianism Without Marriage

    My most recent China Daily commentary is up.  You can find it here.  For regular readers of The Useless Tree, you will notice that it is an amalgam of several past posts about how modern Confucianism might relate to families centered on umarried couples.  I will post it below the fold as well.  This time around I rate a little picture:





    

      And also an editorial cartoon, which depicts Confucius, I suppose, weighing a married and an unmarried family and finding them equal:

 

       I don't quite yet rate the title "columnist" but maybe that is something I can work for.

China Daily: How To Treat Disability

    Turns out my column in China Daily ran last Thursday.  They informed me today.  Here is a link.  It is about "Ashley's Treatment."  For regular readers of The Useless Tree, you will notice that I have blogged on this topic; so, the newspaper piece is an example of the interaction (I tend to avoid using the word "synergy") of old media and new.  Cool.

   It looks like this will be a regular gig.  Every two weeks or so, I will do a column for the main paper.  So far so good - not a word was changed from what I submitted.  It could be an interesting ride...