Tradition and modernity : a humanist view / by Chen Lai ; translated by Edmund Ryden.
Language: English Original language: Chinese Series: Brill's humanities in China library ; v. 3.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.Description: x, 386 p. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9789004165786 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9004165789 (hardback : alk. paper)
- Chuan tong yu xian dai. English
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- B5233.C6 C42813 2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Retrospect and prospect for contemporary Chinese thought -- Resolving the tension between tradition and modernity : reflections on the May Fourth cultural tide -- The May Fourth tide and modernity -- Radicalism in the cultural movement of the twentieth century -- Modern Chinese culture and the difficulties of Confucian learning -- Liang Shuming's early view of Oriental and Western culture -- The establishment and development of Feng Youlan's view of culture -- A reflection on the new school of principle and thoughts on modernity -- Confucian thought and the world of modern East Asia -- Confucian ethics and China's modernisation -- East Asian tradition according to modernisation theory -- A sense of predicament and inter-dependency -- Liang Shuming and Max Weber on Chinese culture -- Values, authority, tradition and Chinese philosophy -- The difficulty of undertaking national studies research in the nineties : the problem of the national studies fever and research into traditional culture -- The value and status of traditional Chinese culture.
Translated from the Chinese.
The question for 20th-century China has been the integration of tradition and modernity. In this collection of essays written over a period of some 20 years (1987-2006), Chen Lai reflects on the question in an informative and original way.
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