it's a confucius society, a socialist country, and i found out people weren't talking about groups, that they were talking about themselves. and that forced me to really re-think how i understood the way that the society was organized. >> charlie: so you look at the profiles and it's part of the week book which is the idea of the people. let me talk about the broader picture. this book says something about china. you and your publisher obviously looked into the idea of the book being published in china. >> that's right. >> charlie: it is not being published in china. >> it is not. i thought about it. chinese publishers said they'd like to publish the book, based on the work i'd done at "the new yorker." >> charlie: right. there is a big market for foreign authors being published in china. i love the idea of reaching chinese readers because it feels like a fair bargain to give back a story to them that i pulled from them in the last eight years, but in order to publish to chinese, i would have to make substantive cuts about dissidents and political things. >> charlie: everybody including

people they're more impacted influenced by confucius values than anything else that sense of hierarchy that sense of respect that filial piety that's what makes china china and then you layer over that that the mulcher was twentieth century that they went through incursions of people's invasions take over is a great leap forward cultural revolution and the chinese people who've been through an enormous amount they're proud now of where they are they're united as a country they're under one flag they don't have any foreign invaders. and they feel like they're on top of the world right now and i'll be guest on your review show nice weekend it's an honor to have a larry what a treat on a thank you governor jon huntsman for joining us today on politicking for my view is up i want to hear from you join the conversation on my facebook page they really like it seems things easy to. tell from the street politics. technology innovation all the developments from around russia we go to the future covered. i would rather ask questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their be

. >> what is confucius say about the individual? >> incident put much stock on the individual. would allow philosophers believed was you have to have a system that would control the wayward impulses and appetites of the public because -- in some ways, i inc. the errors of the political leaders leave that. that is the inherent tension theeen what is so clearly power of individuals who want to find their own sense of the good life and the state which still believes today that we can tell you what the chinese dream is. we know what it is. trust us. people say we are not sure we are ready to trust you. >> will this party survive? >> the economy has been adaptable. it is much more adaptable and pragmatic and we thought it was. if i had to guess today what would happen, the communist party will redefine itself in order to survive. meaning it is already shown it is not going to stay attached to communist economics. >> was the biggest thing standing in the way for china being able to play a significant role in the role? how the global ambition and be accepted as a player? and be able t

so confucius was revived essentially. all of a sudden, the temple became active.ere tour groups going through all day long. people were being taught how to pray towards his statue. >> did you work in your house all the time? >> i did. i had to get used to this sound of the confucian philosophy. neighbor, -- he said, do you hear it in your house? he said, it is driving me nuts. he said, you should go complain about it. i said, why me? he said, you are a foreigner. they will listen to you. >> back to the street sweeper. >> the street sweeper was one of a crew of guys who worked in the neighborhood. they were these aren't outfits. i couldn't really tell them apart because they were the same hats and outfits. they would go around the neighborhood and sweep up the streets. one day i was talking with that guy who runs the scrapyard. one of the sweepers came up to us and said, can you see on the face of that rock is the face of the emperor? we said, what? stronge with a very provincial accent. he said, come back to us when you have learned how to speak robert beijing dia

. >> host: when it comes to confucius get rid of the department of education, get rid of the energy departmentc.? >> guest: i live in a theater and local world and real world and the real world is not going to happen but it should. i don't see the need for a department of education. that is not going to happen, let's be honest. the best we can do is rely more on federalism for our everyday -- starting with obamacare which will never be repealed but that is reality. moving forward i think we should always be laboratories of democracy and they should stay. >> host: what about the direct election of the senate? >> guest: is not going to change. i think there would be far more if the state legislatures elected the senators you would have a lot more senators less concerned about national rather than their states which is what the founders had. we can't even pass the bill without changing the constitution in the future but i think the original way was far superior. >> host: you talk about bandwagon, the people have spoken. >> guest: let's talk about gay marriage. for many years there has been a deba

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