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oapen-20.500.12657-315032021-11-04T14:14:16Z China: Promise or Threat? Helle, Horst J. Sociology Sociology China Chinese language Confucianism Confucius Kinship Taoism 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. 2017-03-01 23:55:55 2020-03-27 03:00:27 2020-04-01T13:37:41Z 2020-04-01T13:37:41Z 2017-03-30 book 627434 OCN: 960906174 9789004330603 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31503 eng Studies in Critical Social Sciences application/pdf n/a 627434.pdf Brill 10.26530/oapen_627434 10.26530/oapen_627434 af16fd4b-42a1-46ed-82e8-c5e880252026 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9789004330603 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Leiden, Boston 100607 KU Select 2016 Front List Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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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