Confucian dimension

Author: Chen Ming
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: These writings reflect the academic thinking and value stance that could be termed "New Confucianism in Mainland China." Although they have been scornfully labeled as "conservative" by radical liberals and condemned as "fake Confucian traitors" by fundamentalist Confucianists, the author firmly believes that his choice and understanding of Confucianism, guided by the rationality and emotions of a modern Chinese intellectual, are "not entirely accurate but not far off." Themes such as political philosophy, cultural identity, the "Chinese body with Western application," the idea of "applying to see the essence," and the debate over "Chinese and Western, ancient and modern" are explored with varying depth and insight, but they all remain consistent as thematic threads and directions of thought. Readers interested in these topics should find both pleasure in reading and inspiration for their own thinking in these writings.