Reconstruct the Chinese Spirit

Author: China Newsweek
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: For too long, our hearts have been one-sidedly inclined toward reason, resulting in the neglect of conscience, fairness or justice, creativity, or the vast love of humanity. Faith transcends objects and can have different names, but the spiritual state of faith determines the rise and fall of civilizations and the rise and fall of nations. — He Guanghu
Why Do We Need Faith?
Su Hongming once attributed this compassion for the people in The Spirit of the Chinese People to the powerful force of empathy. And this force originates from the depths of our human nature—the passion of the heart or the kind of emotion in the sense of love for humanity. — Wu Jinglian
The "Benevolent Economist"
What is truly dangerous is not wartime, but the time of the revival of great nations: institutions are low, expectations are low, nothing will happen, yet everything will happen, as only the sharp edge of history is approaching in the shadows. — Zhu Xueqin
A Century of Rationality, A Century of Temperament
"To achieve harmony, heaven and earth are in their places, and all things are nurtured," this is the harmonious state advocated by the Doctrine of the Mean. To view Confucianism as "philosophical anthropology" or "religious philosophy," modern New Confucianism has regained people's attention and interest in mainland China 30 years after its silence. — Tu Weiming
A Generation of Confucians Dedicated to Continuing the Legacy of the Sages
Over the past century, China has experienced several collisions between Eastern and Western civilizations, self-doubt and abandonment in culture, and challenges to traditional beliefs, morals, ethics, and cultural identity; it has also faced political shocks, and the ideologies that once provided support to some have become shaky. An unbridled wave of commercialization has thoroughly washed people's hearts, turning some Chinese into nihilists. In fact, whether it is an individual or a group, one cannot do without faith, morals, ethics, rational spirit, public spirit, or cultural confidence. Today, we have seen some signs of the Chinese people rebuilding their spiritual world. It can be said that China has entered an era of spiritual reconstruction. Once people gain natural freedom, they will instinctively seek a more just and their own culture, connect with the distant past, nourish sound morals, values, and lifestyles, and find peace for the Chinese people. This book will delve into the stories of those dedicated to spiritual reconstruction through the seemingly chaotic social phenomena of the present.