Chinese Thought World: Overseas Chinese Studies Series

Author: (Japan) Yuzo Mizoguchi, (Japan) Tsuyoshi Kojima, Editors; Translated by Sun Ge et al.
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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 essays cover various aspects such as philosophy, science and technology, politics, society, and etiquette, offering rich content and concise arguments. They reflect the meticulous and rigorous characteristics of Japanese Sinology while also demonstrating an attempt by Japanese sinologists to examine their academic stance within the global landscape. The editors believe that the value systems of Europe and America have been regarded as global standards so far. Sociocultural forms that cannot be fully explained by these standards struggle to develop their own modes of expression and value judgment systems. This book seeks to explore such modes of expression and value systems and, on this basis, attempt to establish a new worldview. This implies relativizing the prevailing Chinese studies benchmarks in Europe and America while also highlighting that these benchmarks cannot fully encompass the historical logic of China. As a result, it problematizes modern Japan, Asia, and even the world.