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Chinese Thought in a Global Context

Author : Karl-Heinz Pohl
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004501676

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Chinese Thought in a Global Context by Karl-Heinz Pohl Pdf

How do Chinese and Western philosophical traditions interact today? In the underlying collection of articles both Chinese and Western scholars carefully examine the issue, one of fundamental importance for the mutual understanding of China and the West. The volume is the result of a symposium which sought to initiate a dialogue between China and the West on questions ranging from philosophy to politics and aesthetics. The papers deal with various topics of cross-cultural hermeneutics, such as differences between Chinese and Western concepts of man’s relation to the universe, human rights, self and community, good and evil, and beauty. In some of the contributions attempts are made to adapt the Chinese philosophical inheritance to the modern or post-modern condition. A useful reference for all those - historians of ideas, political scientists, and China watchers alike - who want to understand the dynamics of the cultural flow between East and West and the significance of Chinese thought in a global context.

Chinese Ethics in a Global Context

Author : Karl-Heinz Pohl,Anselm Müller
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004453548

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Chinese Ethics in a Global Context by Karl-Heinz Pohl,Anselm Müller Pdf

How do Chinese and Western ethical traditions interact today? In this collection of articles both Chinese and Western scholars carefully examine the issue, one of fundamental importance for the mutual understanding between China and the West. The volume is the result of the second symposium which focused on a dialogue between China and the West on questions of ethics, in particular concerning their commensurability and a possible common ground. The first part of the book discusses general problems of ethics in a cross-cultural context, followed by articles on ethical bases of Chinese and Western societies respectively. Further topics range from moral traditions in the context of social transformation in China today to developments in Western societies, politics, education and religion. The last part deals with controversial issues such as human rights vs. human duties and medical ethics.

Chinese Thought as Global Theory

Author : Leigh Jenco
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438460451

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Chinese Thought as Global Theory by Leigh Jenco Pdf

Using Chinese thought, explores how non-Western thought can structure generally applicable social and political theory. With a particular focus on Chinese thought, this volume explores how, and under what conditions, so-called “non-Western” traditions of thought can structure generally applicable social and political theory. Reversing the usual comparison between “local” Chinese application and “universal” theory, the work demonstrates how Chinese experiences and ideas offer systematic insight into shared social and political dilemmas. Contributors discuss how medieval Chinese understandings of causal heterogeneity can relieve impasses within contemporary historiography, how current economic and social conditions in China respond proactively to the future configuration of world markets, and how hybrid modes of cross-cultural engagement offer new foundations for the enterprise of learning from cultural others. Each chapter works from Chinese perspectives to theorize the location of knowledge, its conditions of production, and the modes through which its content or adequacy is legitimated, challenged, and sustained. Rather than reproducing Eurocentric knowledge production in Chinese form, the mobilization of Chinese thought as a generally applicable body of theory actually breaks down clear boundaries between Chinese and non-Chinese thought.

Chinese Constitutionalism in a Global Context

Author : Peng Chengyi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317167075

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Chinese Constitutionalism in a Global Context by Peng Chengyi Pdf

Over the course of the last four decades as China’s ideological realm has been transformed, it has become significantly more complicated. This is well illustrated in the current discourse concerning China’s constitutional future. Among Chinese intellectuals the liberal constitutionalism paradigm is widely accepted. However, more recently, this perspective has been challenged by mainland New Confucians and Sinicized Marxists alike. The former advocate a constitutionalism that is based upon and loyal to the Confucian tradition; while the latter has sought to theorize the current Chinese constitutional order and reclaim its legitimacy. This book presents a discussion of these three approaches, analyzing their respective strengths and weaknesses, and looking to the likely outcome. The study provides a clear picture of the current ideological debates in China, while developing a platform for the three schools and their respective constituencies to engage in dialogue, pluralize the conceptions of constitutionalism in academia, and shed light on the political path of China in the 21st Century. The consequences of this Chinese contribution to the global constitutionalism debate are significant. Notions of the meaning of democratic organization, of the nature of the division of authority between administrative and political organs, of the nature and role of political citizenship, of the construction of rights are all implicated. It is argued that China’s constitutional system, when fully theorized and embedded within the global discourse might serve, as the German Basic Law did in its time, as a model for states seeking an alternative approach to the legitimate construction of state, political structures and institutions.

Chinese Aesthetics in a Global Context

Author : Zhirong Zhu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789811677472

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Chinese Aesthetics in a Global Context by Zhirong Zhu Pdf

This book examines aesthetic issues based on humanities principles and creates a theory of Chinese aesthetics from a global perspective by applying China’s traditional and cultural history to a Western theoretical framework. In particular, this book emphasizes the shared features of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism, namely the unity of heaven and men, unity of nature and society, and the materialization of human feelings and humanization of material things. It also highlights the dominant role of humans in the aesthetic relationship between human and object, while placing imagery in a focal position.

Ideas across Cultures

Author : Paul A. Cohen,Merle Goldman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781684172894

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Ideas across Cultures by Paul A. Cohen,Merle Goldman Pdf

"Benjamin Schwartz taught at Harvard from 1950 until his retirement in 1987. Through his teaching and writing, he became a major force in the field of Chinese studies, setting standards—above all in the area of intellectual history—that have been a source of inspiration to students and scholars worldwide. His influence extends well beyond the China field, cutting across conventional disciplinary boundaries, touching political science, religion, philosophy, and literature as well as history. The essays in this book are by scholars who have studied with Benjamin Schwartz. Given the range of his own interests, it is fitting that they embrace an expanse of time from the Zhou dynasty to the present and a range of subjects equally inclusive—ancient and medieval Chinese thought, the fate of democracy in early Republican China, the development of aesthetic modernism in the 1920s and 1930s and its reemergence in the post-Mao era, the emphasis on spiritual regeneration and cultural transformation in Chinese and Japanese Marxism, popular values in twentieth-century China (as reflected in village theatrical performances), the larger issue of what part our own values should take in the study and assessment of other societies and cultures, and the equally broad issue of how we are to address the relationship between Chinese modernization and China’s traditional culture. Despite this heterogeneity and the fact that the contributors include two political scientists, five historians with strong philosophical interests, and three scholars whose writing bridges the disciplines of history and literature, there is a surprising coherence to the volume. Almost all the authors consciously address either aspects of Schwartz’s general approach or specific themes dealt with in his work. Each contribution is about ideas and takes ideas and their societal roles seriously. Although presented in the specific context of China, the issues raised in these essays are important to the world beyond China. Exploring them in both their Chinese and non-Chinese settings reflects the power of Schwartz’s own work in illuminating a broader canvas of human thought."

Chinese vs. Western Perspectives

Author : Jinghao Zhou
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739180464

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Chinese vs. Western Perspectives by Jinghao Zhou Pdf

China is on the rise in the globalized world. The relationship between China and the United States has become the most important global issue in the twenty-first century. It is urgent to understand what is happening in China and where China is heading. However, there are many misconceptions about China in the West, which affect Westerners’ ability to objectively understand China, and, ultimately influence the making of foreign policy toward China. The author attempts to challenge the misconceptions coming from both Western societies and China, and offer an integrated picture of contemporary China through systematically examining the major aspects of contemporary Chinese society and culture with the most recent data, and presents convincing arguments in eighteen chapters for spurring mutual understanding between China and the West. The author intends this book to be an interdisciplinary and comprehensive guide to China for a general audience, and it covers a wide variety of topics, including history, family, population, Chinese women, economy, environmental issues, politics, religion, media, U.S.-China relations, and other subjects. This book demonstrates the author’s extensive research and thoughtful examination of many sides of controversial issues related to China with a nice balance of Western and Chinese scholarship. This is one of the few that are authored by scholars who originate from China and have their professional career in the United States, but it is distinctive from the rest of studies on this subject in that the author is committed to examining today’s China from Chinese as well as Western perspectives. This is not only a scholarly book, but also is suitable for general classes on China.

Chinese Encyclopaedias of New Global Knowledge (1870-1930)

Author : Milena Doleželová-Velingerová,Rudolf G Wagner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783642359163

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Chinese Encyclopaedias of New Global Knowledge (1870-1930) by Milena Doleželová-Velingerová,Rudolf G Wagner Pdf

This is a set of pioneering studies on Chinese encyclopaedias of modern knowledge (1870-1930). At a transitional time when modern knowledge was sought after yet few modern schools were available, these works were crucial sources of information for an entire generation. This volume investigates many of these encyclopaedias, which were never reprinted and are hardly known even to specialists, for the first time. The contributors to this collection all specialize in the period in question and have worked together for a number of years. The resulting studies show that these encyclopaedias open a unique window onto the migration and ordering systems of knowledge across cultural and linguistic borders.

Chinese Culture in the 21st Century and its Global Dimensions

Author : Kelly Kar Yue Chan,Chi Sum Garfield Lau
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789811527432

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Chinese Culture in the 21st Century and its Global Dimensions by Kelly Kar Yue Chan,Chi Sum Garfield Lau Pdf

This book investigates the internationalization of Chinese culture in recent decades and the global dimensions of Chinese culture from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives. It covers a variety of topics concerning the contemporary significance of Chinese culture in its philosophical, literary and artistic manifestations, including literature, film, performing arts, creative media, linguistics, translations and philosophical ideas. The book explores the reception of Chinese culture in different geographic locations and how the global reception of Chinese culture contrasts with the local Chinese community. The chapters collectively cover gender studies and patriarchal domination in Chinese literature in comparison to the world literature, explorations on translation of Chinese culture in the West, Chinese studies as an academic discipline in the West, and Chinese and Hong Kong films and performances in the global context. The book is an excellent resource for both scholars and students interested in the development of Chinese culture on the global stage in the 21st Century.

Searle’s Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy

Author : Bo Mou
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789047433699

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Searle’s Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy by Bo Mou Pdf

This anthology investigates how Searle’s philosophy and Chinese philosophy can jointly contribute to the common philosophical enterprise and shows how such comparative methodology of constructive engagement is important in philosophical inquiry. Searle contributes his keynote essay and his engaging replies to the other contributions.

Chinese Thought in a Multi-cultural World

Author : YUE Daiyun
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000818413

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Chinese Thought in a Multi-cultural World by YUE Daiyun Pdf

Reflecting on the “clash of civilizations” as its point of departure, this book is based on a series of sixteen of the author’s interconnected, thematically focused lectures and calls for new perspectives to resist imperialistic homogeneity. Situated within a neo-humanist context, the book applies interactive cognition from an Asian perspective within which China can be perceived as an essential “other,” making it highly relevant in the quest for global solutions to the many grave issues facing humankind today. The author critiques American, European, and Chinese points of view, highlighting the significance of difference and the necessity of dialogue, before, ultimately, rethinking the nature of world literature and putting forward interactive cognition as a means of “reconciliation” between cultures. Chinese culture, as a frame of reference endowed with traditions of “harmony without homogeneity”, may help to alleviate global cultural confrontation and even reconstruct the understanding of human civilization. The book will be essential reading for scholars and students of Comparative Literature, Chinese Studies, and all those who are interested in cross-cultural communication and Chinese culture in general.

Chinese Thought and Institutions

Author : John King Fairbank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : China
ISBN : 0226234037

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Chinese Thought and Institutions by John King Fairbank Pdf

These specialists in Chinese history, politics, and sociology break new ground in the application of modern social science to the long Confucian record. Their studies range over the entire chronological span from before Confucius to modern times, but all center on the political and social uses of Confucian ideas.

Beyond Indigenization: Christianity and Chinese History in a Global Context

Author : Feiya Tao
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004532120

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Beyond Indigenization: Christianity and Chinese History in a Global Context by Feiya Tao Pdf

Beyond Indigenization, edited by Tao Feiya and translated into English by Max L. Bohnenkamp, traces the history of Christianity in China from the Tang era to contemporary times.

Cross-cultural Studies: China and the World

Author : Suoqiao QIAN
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004284951

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Cross-cultural Studies: China and the World by Suoqiao QIAN Pdf

Cross-cultural Studies: China and the World, A Festschrift in Honor of Professor Zhang Longxi collects twelve essays by eminent scholars across several disciplines in Chinese and cross-cultural studies to celebrate Zhang Longxi’s scholarly achievements. As a leading scholar from post-Cultural Revolution China, Zhang Longxi’s academic career has set a milestone in cross-cultural studies between China and the world. With an introduction by Qian Suoqiao, and a prologue by Zhang Longxi himself, the volume features masterly essays by Ronald Egan, Torbjörn Lodén, Haun Saussy, Lothar von Falkenhausen, and Hwa Yol Jung among others, which will make significant contributions to Sinological and cross-cultural studies of themselves on the one hand, and demonstrate Zhang Longxi’s friendships and scholarly impact on the other.

Li Zehou and Confucian Philosophy

Author : Roger T. Ames,Jinhua Jia
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824876104

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Li Zehou and Confucian Philosophy by Roger T. Ames,Jinhua Jia Pdf

For more than a century scholars both inside and outside of China have undertaken the project of modernizing Confucianism, but few have been as successful or influential as Li Zehou (b. 1930). Since the 1950s, Li’s extensive efforts in this regard have in turn exerted a profound influence on Chinese modernization and resulted in his becoming one of China’s most prominent social critics. To transform Confucianism into a contemporary resource for positive change in China and elsewhere, Li has reinterpreted major ideas and concepts of classical Confucianism, including a rereading of the entire Analects, replete with his own philosophical speculations derived from other Chinese and Western traditions (most notably, the ideas of Kant and Marx), and developed an aesthetical theory that has proved especially far-reaching. Although the authors of this volume hail from East Asia, North America, and Europe and a wide variety of academic backgrounds and fields of study, they are unanimous in their appreciation of Li’s contributions to not only an evolving Confucian philosophy, but also world philosophy. They view Li first and foremost as a sui generis thinker with broad global interests and not one who fits neatly into any one philosophical category, Chinese or Western. This is clearly reflected in the chapters included here, which are organized into three parts: Li Zehou and the Modernization of Confucianism, Li Zehou’s Reconception of Confucian Philosophy, and Li Zehou’s Aesthetical Theory and Confucianism. Together they form a coherent narrative that reveals how Li has, for more than half a century, creatively studied, absorbed, and reconceptualized the Confucian ideational tradition to integrate it with Western philosophical elements and develop his own philosophical insights and original theories. At the same time, he has transformed and modernized Confucianism for the purpose of both coalescing with and reconstructing a new world cultural order.