Western Winds Blowing East: A Comparative Study of China and Japan Absorbing Western Culture

Author: Yu Guifen
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Publish Date: 2001-07-01
Features: This book is one of the major projects of the National 211 Engineering Program, "The Series of Comparative Studies on Chinese and Foreign Civilizations." It takes culture as a perspective, comparing the similarities and differences between China and Japan in absorbing Western culture. The book reveals the dynamic vertical development process of China and Japan in absorbing Western capitalist industrial civilization and explores the reasons for the divergent paths of their modernization processes. It employs research methods such as comparative history, quantitative history, and systems theory to summarize the similarities and differences, successes and failures, lessons learned, and historical patterns in China and Japan's absorption of Western culture. It also delves into the deeper reasons behind the different historical destinies of China and Japan's modernization, providing references for contemporary China's reform and opening-up, its correct approach to foreign cultures, and the construction of a socialist culture with Chinese characteristics through conflict and integration.