ENGLISH

Tradition and Modernity: A Humanist View

By Chen Lai

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2009
ISBN
9004165789, 9789004165786
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2850895 bytes)
Series
Brills Humanities in China Library
Pages
386\397
Time added
2017-10-11 13:34:48
Confucianism;Other Eastern Religions & Sacred Text

Description

The Question for Twentieth-Century China has been the integration of tradition and modernity. In this collection of essays written over a period of some twenty years (1987-2006), Chen Lai reflects on the question in an informative and original way. He reads behind the political slogans and engages with the thought both of Max Weber, Talcott Parsons and Western sociology, and representative Chinese thinkers, notably Feng Youlan and Liang Shuming. While the focus is on China, the book also appeals to anyone interested in this fascinating question of how to modernise whilst retaining the positive values of tradition. Chen Lai's unique and balanced grasp of society marks him out as the foremost thinker in China on this topic today. Translated by Edmund Ryden

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