Big Perspective China View

Author: Zhang Fanggao
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: A Grand Perspective on China is a work that comprehensively grasps Chinese civilization or culture from a grand perspective, understanding China's past, present, and future, and capturing the trend of the great rejuvenation of the modern civilization of the Chinese nation. It pioneers the grand perspective approach, viewing China from the world's perspective, from the perspective of the development of human civilization, and from the perspective of space, as if "standing at the pinnacle of the world, overlooking all the mountains." It reveals the three-act main melody of the 5,000-year development history of Chinese national civilization: the prosperity and flourishing of ancient civilization, the decline of modern civilization and national peril, and the revival and rise of modern civilization and national takeoff. It demonstrates the three-act main melody of the great rejuvenation of Chinese national civilization: the 20th century as a politically renowned global power, the 21st century as an economically renowned global power, and the third millennium of the human era as a culturally renowned global power. It elaborates on the two unique or unparalleled characteristics of Chinese national civilization in the history of human civilization: the long-standing continuity of its history and the political unity of its "divided but ultimately reunited" nature. It transcends the conventional thinking models of comparative studies between Chinese and foreign or Chinese and Western cultures, focusing on identifying the excellent cultural genetic markers of the Chinese nation and exploring the historical and cultural sources that enable the Chinese nation to once again lead the world in the development of human civilization. It breaks through the traditional understanding of the concept of Chinese characteristics in academia, pointing out that not only does the development of modern Chinese civilization have its own characteristics, but so does the development of ancient and modern Chinese civilization. Chinese characteristics refer to the unique direction and path of Chinese civilization over its 5,000-year history, which differs from any other ethnic group in the world. It discovers the law of imbalance in the development of human civilization and scientifically answers the historical enigmas: how a prosperous and flourishing Chinese nation in ancient times fell into the decline of civilization and national peril in modern times; and how a backward and bullied Chinese nation in modern times inevitably and necessarily rose in the modern era. It proposes the law of social reenactment, pointing out that just as higher organisms in their life processes rapidly reenact the development history of lower organisms in physics, the modernization and reform and opening-up of contemporary China are based on the rapid reenactment of the development history of capitalist economy, creating a higher level of human civilization. It summarizes the grand trend of human civilization progress in the 21st century, proposing that the great rejuvenation of modern Chinese civilization aligns with the grand trend of human civilization progress in the 21st century, points toward the future of human civilization, and ensures that the Chinese nation will once again lead the world in the development of human civilization, making significant contributions to the advancement of all of human civilization.