Tradition and modernity : a humanist view / / by Chen Lai ; translated by Edmund Ryden.

• Superior document: Brill's humanities in China library, v. 3
• Author: Chen, Lai, 1952-
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's humanities in China library ; v. 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (396 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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 w...

Table of Contents

• 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.