The title is a collection of essays centering on the topic of intercultural communication between Chinese and Western cultures by Tang Yijie, one of the most renowned philosophy scholars in China.
Comprised of five parts, the author discusses how Chinese culture should modernize itself through borrowing from Western culture premised on a self-awareness of Chinese culture per se. The book begins by critiquing theories of the so-called clash of civilizations and new empires and argues for the coexistence of cultures and a global consciousness instead. Chapters in the second part revisit contemporary Chinese culture in transition and call for the cultural integration of China and the West, with China defined in both its ancient and modern guises. By providing reflections on the cultural trends of the 1980s and 1990s, the third part illustrates the inevitable growth of diversified cultural development while analyzing cases of cultural dialogue in history, philosophy and religion. The fourth part demonstrates the significance of culture diversity and interaction while the fifth provides thoughts and reflections on some real-life cultural issues.
This title will appeal to all levels of readers interested in Chinese culture, cross-cultural studies and topics of cultural pluralism.
The title is a collection of essays centering on the topic of intercultural communication between Chinese and Western cultures by Tang Yijie, one of the most renowned philosophy scholars in China.
Part I The Clash and Coexistence of Civilizations
1. What is
Civilization?
2. Appraisal of Samuel Huntingtons Clash of Civilizations
Thesis
3. The Irreversible Trend of Cultural Diversity
4. The Clash of
Civilizations and Coexistence of Civilizations
5. Identity of Ontology and
Methodology: A New Perspective on Modernistic Diversity
6. New Perspectives
on Western Sinology
7. Current Cultural Exchange and Communication between
China and the West Part II Chinese Culture in Transition
8. How to Develop
Chinese Culture
9. The Combination of Global Awareness and Root-Seeking
Awareness
10. Chinese Culture to Go Global and the Global Culture to be
Introduced into China
11. On the Cultural Resultant Force in Cultural
Transformation
12. Issues of Cultural Development in China during the
Transition Period
13. Looking Forward to Cultural Development in the 21st
Century
14. A Brief Discussion on Chinese and Western and Ancient and Modern
Controversies in Chinese Culture over the Past Century
15. Chinese Culture
under the Impact of Western Culture
16. Cultural Consciousness and Problem
Consciousness Part III Reflection after the Cultural Fever
17. "Modern" and
"Post-modern"
18. The Rise of Sinology Fever
19. "Culture Fever" and
"Sinology Fever"
20. How Western Scholars in Reflection Look at Traditional
Chinese Culture
21. Economic Development Still Requires a Sense of Dedication
and Moral Responsibility Part IV The Meaning of Cross-cultural Dialogue
22.
The Significance of Studying Comparative Philosophy and Comparative Religion
regarding the Introduction of Indian Buddhism into China
23. On Matteo
Ricci's Attempt to Integrate Eastern and Western Cultures
24. On the
Comparison of Chinese and Western Cultures Concerning the Pursuit of the
Truth, the Goodness and the Beauty
25. Two-way Choice of Cultures
26. Between
Walls and No Walls: Are Walls Necessary between Cultures?
27. Reflections on
Cultural Issues
28. Two Challenges Facing the Multicultural Development Part
V Ideology, Faith and Culture
29. Cultural Rescue, Preservation and
Innovation
30. Edify the Populace to Achieve a Harmonious Society
31. How
to Cope with the Mankind's Misery: Compared with Thousand Years Ago, Humans
are Struggling with Less or More Misery?
32. On the Complementarity of
Chinese and Western Cultures
Tang Yijie (19272014) was an accomplished professor and an authority of Chinese philosophy at Peking University, China. In the last decade of his life, he spearheaded the monumental Confucian Canon project.
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