It strikes me from your description that the normal hierarchical workings of a well-working for-profit company closely resemble a face culture. The instances we see in the newspapers are where a psycho becomes the head of the organization, and the organization then adopts the psycho’s goals -- though generally not to the psycho’s mode of interacting, which is usually not consistent with your face-culture description.
Indeed! Even though Fei Xiatong supported the communists, his writing on traditional government reads like a criticism/warning of strong central power. So despite his stated support his writing wound up banned as anti-Marxist in China.
It strikes me from your description that the normal hierarchical workings of a well-working for-profit company closely resemble a face culture. The instances we see in the newspapers are where a psycho becomes the head of the organization, and the organization then adopts the psycho’s goals -- though generally not to the psycho’s mode of interacting, which is usually not consistent with your face-culture description.
Interesting observation. I'll have to think more on that one.
> Heck, some of the more alarmist takes on victimhood culture compare it to Mao’s cultural revolution.
Of course, Maoism is partially the result of the Communists' attempts to destroy traditional Chinese culture.
Indeed! Even though Fei Xiatong supported the communists, his writing on traditional government reads like a criticism/warning of strong central power. So despite his stated support his writing wound up banned as anti-Marxist in China.