New Dao. First Issue

Author: Zhu Hanmin, Zhang Baoming
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Publishing Date: 2003-10-01
Features: "Yuan Dao" was founded in 1994 and edited by Chen Ming. Starting from its eighth issue, due to technical reasons, it was renamed "Xin Yuan Dao." "Xin Yuan Dao" focuses on cultural construction based on traditional resources. This is not only because we believe the wisdom of ancient sages and sages still holds great enlightenment today, but also because we believe that the achievements of contemporary culture, in essence, must be an expression and validation of national will and creativity, which are the core of what we understand as tradition. "Xin Yuan Dao" holds that tradition, as a set of discourse, has a dual relationship with the life of the nation: "expression/shaping." As expression, it reflects the nation's will, needs, and understanding of the world; as shaping, it is the nation's self-awareness of its own conscious grasp, adjustment, and construction. The crisis of contemporary Chinese culture, fundamentally speaking, is that we lack a discourse system capable of undertaking this "expression/shaping" function. The responsibility of "Xin Yuan Dao" is to rebuild such a discourse system from the intrinsic connection between culture and the nation. Under such goals and processes, the distinction between East/West and left/right only has a relative significance. As the saying goes, "If one first establishes the great, the small cannot snatch it away." Since culture is the embodiment of the life of a nation, as the main body of Chinese culture, Confucianism must necessarily have some intrinsic connection between its theoretical form in the contemporary era and the life form of our nation in the contemporary era. Therefore, for those who call themselves Confucians, the first question they should ask is how to choose and create the "unspecified existence" to achieve a healthy and smooth actual form, to obtain the essential characteristics that are due to them. If modernity and globalization, as the historical characteristics of our context, are undeniable, then accepting modernity, integrating into globalization, while maintaining our subjectivity, should be the only path we have to think about. "Xin Yuan Dao" regularly features columns such as "Special Topics and Comments," "Exploration of Thought," "Research on the History of Scholarship," "Graduate Forum," "Cross-Commentary Collection," "Interviews," "Cultural Reviews," "Book Reviews," "Essays and Miscellaneous," and "New Publications of Old Articles." This book is composed of three parts: "Thought," "Research," and "Review," and includes several weighty academic exploratory articles. These articles analyze traditional Chinese culture, the current social situation, and the prospects of Chinese modernization from different perspectives. These discussions provide enlightenment for re-understanding traditional Chinese culture and the reconstruction of Chinese culture.