Phrase of the 天 ("day") 


Random browsing in Wikipedia can help in writing a Carnegie Fellowship application essay! (We'll see...) 

I am trying to write an essay about whether or not China's "rise" to global eminence is threatening to the US and the world. While brainstorming and randomly surfing the all-knowing website Wikipedia, I came across this phrase from the Shiji, the Chinese Records of the Grand Historian:
 
内平外成 
(Nei ping wai cheng.) 
"Peace inside and prosperity outward." 
 
The current Japanese emperor's era (Heisei)is taken, in part, from this phrase. Fancy that. 

Posted: Sat - November 12, 2005 at 12:56 PM          

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