{"id":1186,"date":"2009-03-15T19:33:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T00:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:37:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:37:22","slug":"management-by-hard-liquor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2009\/03\/management-by-hard-liquor\/","title":{"rendered":"Management by Hard Liquor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A description of the administrative methods of the Han Dynasty chancellor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pureinsight.org\/node\/4808\">Cao Shen<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Day and  night he drank strong liquor. Everyone from the aristocratic high  officials to his own lowly clerks and retainers saw that Shen did not  carry out his. duties. Everyone who came wanted to speak with him about it, but when they arrived Shen always offered them a cup of strong liquor. When, after a short while, they said they had something to say, he offered them more. Only once they were drunk did they leave, having spent the whole time unable to bring up the subject.&#8221; \u65e5\u591c\u98f2\u9187\u9152\u3002\u537f\u5927\u592b\u5df2\u4e0b\u540f\u53ca\u8cd3\u5ba2\u898b\u53c3\u4e0d\u4e8b\u4e8b\uff0c\u4f86\u8005\u7686\u6b32\u6709\u8a00\u3002\u81f3\u8005\uff0c\u53c3\u8f12\u98f2\u4ee5\u9187\u9152\uff0c\u9592\u4e4b\uff0c\u6b32\u6709\u6240\u8a00\uff0c\u5fa9\u98f2\u4e4b\uff0c\u9189\u800c\u5f8c\u53bb\uff0c\u7d42\u83ab\u5f97\u958b\u8aaa<a href=\"http:\/\/chinese.dsturgeon.net\/text.pl?node=7162&#038;if=gb\">\u70ba\u5e38<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a nice illustration<sup id=\"rf1-1186\"><a href=\"#fn1-1186\" title=\"from Csikszentmihalyi, Mark. Readings in Han Chinese Thought. Hackett Publishing Company, 2006.&lt;br \/&gt;\n\" rel=\"footnote\">1<\/a><\/sup> of Early Han ideas of government by non-action (\u7121\u70ba). It is a nice story one because it makes it easy to tell if students have done their reading. (Class, does anyone remember the story about Cao Shen?) It is also about the ultimate example of how a bureaucratic government should work. As Cao Shen put it. &#8220;Since someone who had virtue and was well-respected made<br \/>\nthe rules and put the entire kingdom in such a good shape, if we just follow the rules and do not alter the principles, then the kingdom is easy to manage and everyone can relax and enjoy life.&#8221; The only people who can goof it up are the busybodies who keep messing with things. Fortunately a bottle in the filing cabinet can deal with them.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"footnotes\"><ol class=\"footnotes\" style=\"list-style-type:decimal\"><li id=\"fn1-1186\"><p >from Csikszentmihalyi, Mark. Readings in Han Chinese Thought. Hackett Publishing Company, 2006.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=\"#rf1-1186\" class=\"backlink\" title=\"Return to footnote 1.\">&#8617;<\/a><\/p><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A description of the administrative methods of the Han Dynasty chancellor Cao Shen Day and night he drank strong liquor. Everyone from the aristocratic high officials to his own lowly clerks and retainers saw that Shen did not carry out his. duties. 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