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China : promise or threat? : a comparison of cultures / by Horst J. Hell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Helle, Horst Jürgen, author.
- Series:
- Studies in critical social sciences ; volume 96.
- Studies in critical social sciences ; volume 96
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- China--Social conditions.
- China.
- China--Cultural policy--History.
- China--Social life and customs.
- China--Religion.
- China--Foreign relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (174 pages) : digital file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2017.
- Summary:
- In 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.
- Contents:
- Foreword: a fascination with China / by David Fasenfest
- Preface
- Introduction: the goal of this book
- Familism : a threat to the environment
- Exchanges of threats : the opium wars
- China and the US : a balance of power?
- Religions: core components of cultures
- Religious vitality in contemporary China
- Max Weber's view of religion in China
- Daoism : China's native religion
- Oracle-bones : the mandate of heaven
- Confucius : recapture the lost splendor
- The West : individualism at its limits
- China : the kinship society
- China : a threatening promise to the West.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print record, CIP data from the publisher, and e-publication e-publication, viewed on February 2, 2021.
- Other Format:
- Print version (hardback):
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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