TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chen,Lai
TI  - Tradition and modernity: a humanist view 
T2  - Brill's humanities in China library,
SN  - 9789004165786 (hardback : alk. paper)
AV  - B5233.C6 C42813 2009
U1  - 181/.112 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Philosophy, Confucian
KW  - Philosophy, Chinese
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - swd
KW  - Gesellschaft
KW  - China
KW  - Civilization
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -