China: Promise or Threat? : A Comparison of Culture
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China: Promise or Threat? : A Comparison of Culture

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China: Promise or Threat? : A Comparison of Culture

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In China: Promise or Threat? Helle compares the cultures of China and the West through both private and public spheres. For China, the private sphere of family life is well developed while behaviour in public relating to matters of government and the law is less reliable. In contrast, the West operates in reverse. The book's twelve chapters investigate the causes and effects of threats to the environment, military confrontations, religious differences, fundamentals of cultural history, and the countries' orientations for finding solutions to societal problems, all informed by the Confucian impulse to recapture the lost splendour of a past versus faith in progress toward a blessed future. The West has promoted individualism while China is locked in its kinship society.

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Information

Publisher
Brill
Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9789004330603

Table of contents

  1. China: Promise or Threat?: A Comparison of Cultures
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Foreword: A Fascination with China
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction: The Goal of This Book
  7. 1 Familism: A Threat to the Environment
  8. 2 Exchanges of Threats: The Opium Wars
  9. 3 China and the US: A Balance of Power?
  10. 4 Religions: Core Components of Cultures
  11. 5 Religious Vitality in Contemporary China
  12. 6 Max Weber’s View of Religion in China
  13. 7 Daoism: China’s Native Religion
  14. 8 Oracle-Bones: The Mandate of Heaven
  15. 9 Confucius: Recapture the Lost Splendor
  16. 10 The West: Individualism at Its Limits
  17. 11 China: The Kinship Society
  18. 12 China: A Threatening Promise to the West
  19. References
  20. Index