Reg Little, Author at New Dawn: The World's Most Unusual Magazine

Reg Little

About the Author

REG LITTLE (1936-2019) was an Australian diplomat for 25 years, during which time he received language training for 18 months in Japanese and 15 months in Chinese and served as Deputy or Head of 5 Australian overseas diplomatic missions. In Canberra he headed Divisions concerned with North Asia, International Economic Organisations and Policy Planning, and directed the Australia China Council. In 1976 in Beijing, while Mao Zedong was still alive, he foreshadowed China’s future 10% growth. For the past three decades he was active in China and other parts of Asia in conferences addressing the renaissance of Confucian traditional values, about which he has been involved in writing three books including the important and far-sighted A Confucian Daoist Millennium. From 2009 he was a vice president of the Beijing-based International Confucian Association, a discreet organisation which has been shaped, informed and led by key leaders who have guided and overseen China’s peaceful economic rise.

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Modern Medicine: The New World Religion

By Reg Little

East Asia and possibly South Asia have strong traditions that offer insight into Western medical and scientific follies, but many parts of the developing world are much more vulnerable. The French author, Olivier Clerc, in his 2004 publication, Modern Medicine: […]

The Untold Story of China’s Rise

By Reg Little

This article was published in New Dawn Special Issue Vol 9 No 1 (Feb 2015) There are many untold stories about China’s rise. Initially, this story will begin almost four decades ago, but it will ultimately reach back as far […]

The Counterfeit Culture & the Fall of the US Empire

By Reg Little

“The Counterfeit Culture” is the title of an article on 2 September 2011 by Mike Adams in his widely distributed daily health email newsletter NaturalNews. He used it to express a dismay that is increasingly widespread, essentially as a result […]

Imperial End Times, Progress & the Water Dragon

By Reg Little

English speaking people who have benefited from the past 200 years of Anglo-American global order have reason to view progress through 2012 with some sense of trepidation. Almost everywhere, comfortable certainties are under challenge, whether from the widespread sense of […]

Yukio Mishima: The Man and the Mythology

By Reg Little

Yukio Mishima (pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka) is perhaps the most commanding and tragic figure in 20th century Japan. Born into a samurai-bureaucrat family in 1925, he committed ritual suicide (seppuku) on 25 November 1970. He had just failed, predictably, […]