Globalization and China: A French Scholar Discusses Contemporary Cultural Exchange: A French Scholar Discusses Contemporary Cultural Exchange

Author: Wei Mingde
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Publish Date: 2002-09-01
Features: Globalization has brought both fear and hope. Like in other countries, it has changed the fate and culture of China. Every nation has raised the same questions: how to face the waves of globalization without losing self-identity, and how to distinguish its benefits from its harms? Between terrorist attacks and joining the WTO, between the internet and mad cow disease, what is the true face of globalization? This book explores the phenomenon of globalization from the perspectives of culture, politics, and religion, rather than focusing on economics. It highlights how the tide of globalization has profoundly changed people's ways of thinking, their dependence on nature, their relationship with themselves, and their relationships with others. Globalization itself is neither good nor bad; it is defined by human actions. It has the potential to irrevocably destroy our traditions, but at the same time, it offers us—the East and the West, the North and the South—the opportunity to create a new shared humanitarian civilization.