Chinese Thought World

Author: Liu Dong
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: This book collects outstanding works by Japanese scholars on ancient Chinese thought and culture. The topics covered in each essay include philosophy, science and technology, politics, society, etiquette, and more, making the content extremely rich and the arguments highly concise. It reflects the meticulous and detailed characteristics of Japanese Sinology and also demonstrates an attempt by Japanese sinologists to contemplate their academic stance within the global landscape. The editors believe that so far, the value systems of Europe and America have been regarded as global standards of measurement. Sociocultural forms that cannot be fully explained by these systems find it difficult to possess their own expressions and value judgment systems. This book strives to explore such expressions and value systems and, on this basis, attempts to establish a new understanding of the world. This means relativizing the commonly accepted Western standards of Chinese studies while also highlighting that these standards cannot fully grasp the historical logic of China, thereby problematizing modern Japan, Asia, and even the world.