China: Promise Or Threat? A Comparison Of Cultures (studies In Critical Social Sciences)
by Horst Jürgen Helle /
2016 / English / PDF
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China: Promise or Threat? Helle compares the cultures of
China and the West through both private and public spheres. For
China, the private sphere of family life is well developed while
behaviour in public relating to matters of government and the law
is less reliable. In contrast, the West operates in reverse. The
book s twelve chapters investigate the causes and effects of
threats to the environment, military confrontations, religious
differences, fundamentals of cultural history, and the countries
orientations for finding solutions to societal problems, all
informed by the Confucian impulse to recapture the lost splendour
of a past versus faith in progress toward a blessed future. The
West has promoted individualism while China is locked in its
kinship society."
Helle compares the cultures of
China and the West through both private and public spheres. For
China, the private sphere of family life is well developed while
behaviour in public relating to matters of government and the law
is less reliable. In contrast, the West operates in reverse. The
book s twelve chapters investigate the causes and effects of
threats to the environment, military confrontations, religious
differences, fundamentals of cultural history, and the countries
orientations for finding solutions to societal problems, all
informed by the Confucian impulse to recapture the lost splendour
of a past versus faith in progress toward a blessed future. The
West has promoted individualism while China is locked in its
kinship society."
