Western winds blow eastward

Author: Yu Guifen
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Publish Date: 2001-07-01
Features: This book is one of the key projects of the National 211 Engineering Program, titled "Series of Series on the Comparative Study of Chinese and Foreign Civilizations." It takes culture as a perspective, comparing the similarities and differences between China and Japan in absorbing Western culture. The book reveals the dynamic vertical development process of China and Japan in absorbing Western capitalist industrial civilization and explores the reasons for the divergent paths of their modernization processes. It employs research methods such as comparative history, quantitative history, and systems theory to summarize the similarities and differences, successes and failures, lessons learned, and historical patterns of China and Japan in absorbing Western culture. It also delves into the underlying reasons for the different historical destinies of the two countries' modernization, providing insights for contemporary China's reform and opening-up, its proper approach to foreign cultures, and the construction of a socialist culture with Chinese characteristics through conflict and integration.