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China : promise or threat? : a comparison of cultures / by Horst J. Helle.
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Helle, Horst Jürgen
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English
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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
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xv, 174 pages ; 25 cm.
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HN733.5 .H534 2017
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Subject(s)
China
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Social conditions
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China
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Cultural policy
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History
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China
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Social life and customs
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China
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Religion
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China
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Foreign relations
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Series
Studies in critical social sciences
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Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 96
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Summary note
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
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Index.
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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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