The future of humanity : global civilization and china 's rejuvenation / by Zhouying Jin ; translated by Lane Jennings and Ying Bai.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jin, Zhouying, author.

Series:

Intellect China library.

Intellect China library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization.

China--Economic conditions--2000-.

China.

Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

xix, 299 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bristol ; Chicago, IL : Intellect, 2018.

Contents:

Introduction: Where Are Human Beings Headed? p. 1

Where is humanity headed? p. 3

Concerning human evolution p. 4

What is technology? p. 4

On future civilization p. 5

Sustainable development and human beings p. 5

Understanding China p. 6

Chapter 1 Deep Concern Over the Direction of Technology Development p. 7

The technological revolution now unfolding p. 9

The syndrome of technology worship p. 22

Anxiety disorder due to technology p. 25

Concerns over the direction of human evolution p. 28

Chapter 2 What Is Technology? p. 39

Technology in the broad sense p. 41

Soft technology has been ignored for a long time p. 44

The significance of understanding soft technology p. 50

What determines the direction of technological innovation? p. 55

Chapter 3 The Crisis in Human Civilization Driven by the Theory of Scientific and Technological Omnipotence p. 67

The imminent disaster facing science and technology p. 69

The crisis of human civilization p. 72

The integration of hard and soft technologies in the field of human life and its risks p. 78

Human progress as the ability to control their own destiny p. 82

Chapter 4 What Kind of Civilization Should Human Beings Pursue? p. 91

Exploring the future evolution of humanity from social-humanity perspectives p. 94

What kind of civilization should human beings pursue after the Industrial Civilization? p. 96

The Global Civilization: The cultural foundation for jointly building future human happiness p. 98

Chapter 5 Future Civilization and Sustainable Human Development p. 113

Redefining sustainable development p. 115

Human sustainability depends on what civilization we choose p. 120

Realizing sustainable development by adopting a systemic solution (the example of China) p. 123

Chapter 6 The Difficult Task of Creating a Global Civilization p. 147

The transformation of civilization has a long way to go p. 149

The development mode of each country can and should be unique p. 159

Beyond Global Civilization: The most worthy goal for human beings p. 164

Prospect of the Great Civilization p. 167

Chapter 7 Can Humans Eventually Create a Great Civilization? p. 179

The power of education and persuasion p. 182

Human beings can and should agree on common values p. 183

Ideal human societies have certain characteristics in common p. 184

Human beings have never stopped striving to realize the ideal society p. 185

Chapter 8 Global Civilization and China's Rejuvenation p. 207

Promoting green and innovative production activities (transforming the economic development model) p. 210

Protecting and recycling natural resources and economizing to attain reasonable development (transforming the resource application model) p. 213

Repairing, restoring, and protecting the environment (transforming the ecological protection model) p. 219

Promoting social progress, building a harmonious society (transforming the social development model) p. 224

Population trial (transforming the population development model) p. 228

Striving to build an innovative country (from imitative innovation to independent innovation) p. 232

Institutional experiment (implementing a socialist system with Chinese characteristics) p. 248

China 2050: A splendid future lies ahead, but dangers still exist p. 257

Chapter 9 The Responsibility of Our Generation p. 267

Reaching a consensus is key p. 269

Changing how we think is the precondition for achieving consensus p. 270

A better future cannot be predicted, but it can be created p. 274

Tolerance and visionary thinking p. 275

Be bold to take responsibility p. 275

Transmitting the goal of realizing the Great Civilization to the next generation p. 276.

ISBN:

1783209259

9781783209255

OCLC:

1031344909