Most of those who talked about Ku Hung-ming (辜鴻銘 1857-1928) like to repeat his eccentric conversations and behaviors, rarely on his learnings and convictions. Tales from the grapevine may entertain the public, yet they do not enable us to really know him. Ku Hung-ming was born in a time of traumatic...
> Ku Hung-ming is only a picturesque instance of a person who is born a rebel.. Ku Hung-ming is witty. But his wit turns invariably upon a paradox. Now the essence of a paradox is that it should surprise by the opposition of its ideas to common notions. Here again, Ku Hung-ming shows up the quality of his mind – a mind that lives by resistance to what is generally accepted..
https://thebamboosea.wordpress.com/2019/09/06/the-late-mr-ku-hung-ming-%E8%BE%9C%E9%B4%BB%E9%8A%98/
#WenYuanNing ( #OonGuanNeng ) on #GuHongMing ( #KuHungMing ) #ARebel
> "You have appealed to the machine gun and by the machine gun shall you be judged."
> "You have shattered the dream of our philosophers that the world could be governed by the power of law and order."
https://www.douban.com/group/topic/40729214/
In #SmokeAndAshes #AmitavGhosh mentions #KuHongMing ( #GuHongMing ) as quoted by #SomersetMaugham . It's nice to find an online version of Maugham's writing.. Ghosh cites the quote from #ClashOfEmpires by #LydiaHLiu
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