ISBN:
9004330607
,
9789004330603
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XV, 174 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Studies in Critical Social Sciences Volume 96
Parallel Title:
Print version China: Promise or Threat?, A Comparison of Culture
DDC:
306.0951
Keywords:
Social conditions
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Religion
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Diplomatic relations
;
Manners and customs
;
Cultural policy
;
China
;
Gesellschaft
;
Soziale Situation
;
Kulturpolitik
;
Familienbeziehung
;
Religion
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
Foreword: A Fascination with China, by David Fasenfest -- Preface -- Introduction: The Goal of this Book -- 1. Familism: A Threat to the Environment -- The “Public Sphere:” Rights without Obligations -- Two types of Personal Association -- Personalization of the Law -- 2. Exchanges of Threats: The Opium Wars -- International Relations: Britain -- Russia, Japan, and Germany -- The Chinese Experience: Threat and Disappointment -- Why Did China not Defend herself? -- 3. China and the US: A Balance of Power? -- Why follow Thucydides? -- Promises and Threats Based on Economic Interests -- Real and Imagined Military Threats -- 4. Religions: Core Components of Cultures -- The Task at Hand: What is a Religion? -- Shared Origins of Contemporary Religions -- Governmental Interference with Religious Affairs -- 5. Religious Vitality in Contemporary China -- Types of Atheism in Party Politics -- Ancestor Worship: The Religion of China -- 6. Max Weber’s View of Religion in China -- 7. Daoism: China’s Native Religion -- The Fundamentals of Daoism -- Nature and Life Everlasting in Daoism -- Daoism as seen by Confucians and Buddhists -- 8. Oracle-Bones: The Mandate of Heaven -- How to Change – forward or backward? -- The Splendid Age of the Oracle Bones -- 9. Confucius: Recapture the Lost Splendour -- The Heavenly Mandate Shared by Relatives -- Finding Options for the Future -- The Party or the Family as “Church” in China? -- 10. The West: Individualism at its Limits -- The Western Family as Tragedy -- Cultural Evolution of Kinship in the West -- 11. China: The Kinship Society -- Granet and the Analects: Evolution of Kinship in China -- Fei Xiaotong: Field Work on Types of Family Life -- Altruism and Selfishness: A precarious Balance -- 12. China: A Threatening Promise to the West -- Summaries of the Chapters -- Concluding Queries about Threats and Promises -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Foreword: a fascination with china
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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
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