Chinese Culture Western Culture

Author : Tai Ng
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 059542547X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Culture, Western Culture written by Tai Ng and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how complementary Chinese and Western cultures are, how they should learn from each other to establish a dynamic balance, and how institutions need constant redefinition and renewal in order to prosper. By studying the history and development of thought and philosophy in these cultures, it suggests lessons from our past that may shed light on current events and help us in handling future challenges. The book presents answers to the following important questions: Do Chinese people think differently from Westerners, and if so, how and why? What are the key differences between Chinese and Western culture and why? How did China become the most technologically advanced and sociologically sophisticated nation in the world until the seventeenth century, and why did it ultimately decline? What are the key characteristics of political institutions in historical China and Europe, and how were they significant? In this postmodern time and era of globalization, what can we learn from Chinese culture and experiences? As China rapidly industrializes, what can it learn from the West without repeating some of the mistakes that Europeans and North Americans made in their periods of industrialization?

Author : Tai P. Ng
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780595418466
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Culture, Western Culture written by Tai P. Ng and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China is emerging front and center on the global economic stage as a new member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Beijing will host the 2008 Summer Olympics and Shanghai will host Expo 2010. Moreover, China is becoming a major trading nation. Is Western culture ready to respect a country known primarily for population control and communism? Chinese Culture, Western Culture asserts that as these events unfold, the Western world will naturally want to know more about China. People will have to filter through an excessive supply of information, and in some cases, misinformation, to understand a culture that has traditionally held so little of the Western world's attention. A primer that explores the complementary aspects of Chinese and Western cultures, this book demonstrates how we can learn from both in order to establish a dynamic balance in this new era of globalization and rapid technological advancement. By discovering new ways of thinking, we can transform how we do business, how we treat our environment, and how we interact with others as we face future challenges.

Author : Guobin Xu
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811081530
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Western Culture written by Guobin Xu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Promoting cultural understanding in a globalized world, this collection provides a concise and unique introduction to Western culture, through the voices of Chinese scholars. Written by a team of experts in their fields, the book provides insights into Western history and culture, covering an interdisciplinary range of topics across literature, language, music, art and religion. It addresses such issues as tourism and etiquette, as well as the key differences of distinct cultures, providing readers with a succinct yet effective way to master a basic understanding of Western culture.

Author : Stephen Roth
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803259454
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antisemitism Worldwide, 2000/1 written by Stephen Roth and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The annual publication Antisemitism Worldwide is compiled by the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism at Tel Aviv University. Unique in scope, structure, and variety of sources, this volume is an analysis of antisemitism in 2000 and early 2001. It includes scholarly articles and book reviews as well as country-by-country surveys. In 2000, the number of major violent acts of antisemitism more than doubled from 1999, and other acts of violence increased by over 50 percent. Antisemitism Worldwide is based on information systematically collected by the institute throughout the world in many languages, then summarized and computerized in its database in English. The source materials come from individuals and institutes, all forms of media, ministries, and committees, as well as Jewish communities and organizations.

Author : Richard Nisbett
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1857884191
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Geography of Thought written by Richard Nisbett and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Richard Nisbett showed an animated underwater scene to his American students, they zeroed in on a big fish swimming among smaller fish. Japanese subjects, on the other hand, made observations about the background environment...and the different "seeings" are a clue to profound underlying cognitive differences between Westerners and East Asians. As Professor Nisbett shows in The Geography of Thought people actually think - and even see - the world differently, because of differing ecologies, social structures, philosophies, and educational systems that date back to ancient Greece and China, and that have survived into the modern world. As a result, East Asian thought is "holistic" - drawn to the perceptual field as a whole, and to relations among objects and events within that field. By comparison to Western modes of reasoning, East Asian thought relies far less on categories, or on formal logic; it is fundamentally dialectic, seeking a "middle way" between opposing thoughts. By contrast, Westerners focus on salient objects or people, use attributes to assign them to categories, and apply rules of formal logic to understand their behaviour.

Author : Guobin Xu
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811081565
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Chinese Culture written by Guobin Xu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Promoting cultural understanding in a globalized world, this text is a key tool for students interested in understanding the fundamentals of Chinese culture. Written by a team of experts in their fields, it offers a comprehensive and detailed introduction to Chinese culture and addresses the fundamentals of Chinese cultural and social development. It notably considers Chinese traditional culture, medicine, arts and crafts, folk customs, rituals and etiquette, and is a key read for scholars and students in Chinese Culture, History and Language.

Author : David L. Hall
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791424780
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anticipating China written by David L. Hall and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-08-17 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows that failure to assess the significant cultural differences between China and the West has seriously affected our understanding of both classical and contemporary China, and makes the translation of attitudes, concepts, and issues extremely problematic.

Author : David L. Hall
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791436141
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking from the Han written by David L. Hall and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the issues of self (including gender), truth, and transcendence in classical Chinese and Western philosophy.

Author : Chunsong Gan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789811388682
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Concise Reader of Chinese Culture written by Chunsong Gan and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses the mutual interactions between Chinese and Western culture as a point of departure in order to concisely introduce the origins and evolution of Chinese culture at the aspects of constitution, thinking, values and atheistic. This book also analyzes utensil culture, constitution culture and ideology culture, which were perfected by absorbing classic arguments from academia. As such, the book offers an essential guide to understanding the development, civilization and key ideologies in Chinese history, and will thus help to promote Chinese culture and increase cultural awareness.

Author : Edward Alsworth Ross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Changing Chinese written by Edward Alsworth Ross and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: