Using the write tool to assess one’s virtue and morality

Prof Oliver Li Zhen from the Dept of Accounting and Director of the China Business School at NUS Business School cited a study by NUS Business School and Nanjing University on whether the focus on poetry during the Tang Dynasty as a test of a candidate’s character might account for the dynasty’s unprecedented power and prosperity. The study found a strong positive link between quality of poetry and an individual’s ethics.

• The Straits Times, 11 August 2017, Opinion, pA28