China : promise or threat? : a comparison of cultures / by Horst J. Helle.

Author
Helle, Horst Jürgen [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Description
xv, 174 pages ; 25 cm.

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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.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-159) and index.
    Contents
    • Foreword: a fascination with china / by David Fasenfest
    • Preface
    • Introduction: the goal of this book
    • Familism : a threat to the environment
    • Exchanges of threats : the opium wars
    • China and the US : a balance of power?
    • Religions: core components of cultures
    • Religious vitality in contemporary China
    • Max Weber's view of religion in China
    • Daoism : China's native religion
    • Oracle-bones : the mandate of heaven
    • Confucius : recapture the lost splendor
    • The West : individualism at its limits
    • China : the kinship society
    • China : a threatening promise to the West
    • References
    • Index.
    ISBN
    • 9789004298200 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
    • 9004298207 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2016034846
    OCLC
    960905705
    International Article Number
    • 9789004298200
    Other standard number
    • 40026692561
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