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Arguement on Confucian ethic and the spirit of Chinese capitalism

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Many arguments about the Chinese Confucianism ethics have a great influence to the development of Chinese capitalism in recent days. The well developed countries or states like Singapore, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong are used to be the focus to support this idea because all of that countries or states have embraced the great teaching of Chinese Confucianism in the past, indeed. For my observations, I am attempting to argue that Confucianism ethics do exist among Chinese people virtually or sometimes intangibly, however it does not have such a great relationship to the development of Chinese capitalism. To support my argument, I would like to point out some reasons and continue with my interpretations. Firstly, the Chinese living overseas today are lacking of practical Confucianism ethics in their daily life. For instance in Japan, most Chinese people do not even have the idea of family, education drive, and paternalism. I met many friends from Fujian province in China, came to Japan...