Cultural Advantages In China / Tale Of Six Cities
by Florentin Smarandache /
2009 / English / PDF
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Nowadays, plenty of factories from Europe and other developed
countries have been relocated to this country, considering its
tremendous economic scale and rapid growth rate during the past
three decades. But most of what happens inside the China nowadays
is deeply hidden from the outside world ( the foreigners as China
people would call). This fact is partly because most reports on
China were written by the so-called fly-high experts who are busy
completing their reports despite a busy schedule. Very few books or
reports were written by people inside, or at least foreigners who
spent a few years in China. Therefore in this book, we took a
different approach, by inviting local scientists and other writers
to describe what happens surround them. It is the purpose of this
book to bring these cultural advantages into more focus, in order
to bring into light some human aspects of the country, and how
these can be integrated into the broader context of economics
development. At the end of the day, their achievements cannot be
measured by economic progress alone, but also how the people can
have the proper sense of meaning (i.e. feel at home) in their own
homeland, instead of being just another bolt in the obsolete
industrial engine of economics. As shown in history that
China/Eastern cultures can shed some light into modern science (cf.
Fritjof Capra etc.), it is of our belief that both cultures can
learn from each other, rather than suppressing the Eastern cultures
under the spell of modernization. As with other books on
development economics, it is beyond the objective of this book to
give the final word. We would rather see the purpose of this book
is to invite further dialogue over a long-time issue on how the
modernization can be given a more humanized interpretation. This
perhaps will include rethinking on the meaning of modernization and
development themselves, beyond classical debates between
inward-outward looking development programs.
Nowadays, plenty of factories from Europe and other developed
countries have been relocated to this country, considering its
tremendous economic scale and rapid growth rate during the past
three decades. But most of what happens inside the China nowadays
is deeply hidden from the outside world ( the foreigners as China
people would call). This fact is partly because most reports on
China were written by the so-called fly-high experts who are busy
completing their reports despite a busy schedule. Very few books or
reports were written by people inside, or at least foreigners who
spent a few years in China. Therefore in this book, we took a
different approach, by inviting local scientists and other writers
to describe what happens surround them. It is the purpose of this
book to bring these cultural advantages into more focus, in order
to bring into light some human aspects of the country, and how
these can be integrated into the broader context of economics
development. At the end of the day, their achievements cannot be
measured by economic progress alone, but also how the people can
have the proper sense of meaning (i.e. feel at home) in their own
homeland, instead of being just another bolt in the obsolete
industrial engine of economics. As shown in history that
China/Eastern cultures can shed some light into modern science (cf.
Fritjof Capra etc.), it is of our belief that both cultures can
learn from each other, rather than suppressing the Eastern cultures
under the spell of modernization. As with other books on
development economics, it is beyond the objective of this book to
give the final word. We would rather see the purpose of this book
is to invite further dialogue over a long-time issue on how the
modernization can be given a more humanized interpretation.