China: Promise or Threat?

A Comparison of Cultures

AvHorst Jürgen Helle

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-11-03
Mått:155 x 235 x 16 mm
Vikt:428 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Critical Social Sciences
Antal sidor:176
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004298200

Utforska kategorier

Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Horst J. Helle held full professorships at the RWTH Aachen University, the University of Vienna, and the University of Munich. He worked at universities in other countries, including a year at the University of Chicago and, since 1996, in mainland China.

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword: A Fascination with China, by David FasenfestPrefaceIntroduction: The Goal of this Book1. Familism: A Threat to the EnvironmentThe “Public Sphere:” Rights without ObligationsTwo types of Personal AssociationPersonalization of the Law2. Exchanges of Threats: The Opium WarsInternational Relations: BritainRussia, Japan, and GermanyThe Chinese Experience: Threat and DisappointmentWhy Did China not Defend herself?3. China and the US: A Balance of Power?Why follow Thucydides?Promises and Threats Based on Economic InterestsReal and Imagined Military Threats4. Religions: Core Components of CulturesThe Task at Hand: What is a Religion?Shared Origins of Contemporary ReligionsGovernmental Interference with Religious Affairs5. Religious Vitality in Contemporary ChinaTypes of Atheism in Party PoliticsAncestor Worship: The Religion of China6. Max Weber’s View of Religion in China7. Daoism: China’s Native ReligionThe Fundamentals of DaoismNature and Life Everlasting in DaoismDaoism as seen by Confucians and Buddhists8. Oracle-Bones: The Mandate of HeavenHow to Change – forward or backward?The Splendid Age of the Oracle Bones9. Confucius: Recapture the Lost SplendourThe Heavenly Mandate Shared by RelativesFinding Options for the Future The Party or the Family as “Church” in China?10. The West: Individualism at its Limits The Western Family as TragedyCultural Evolution of Kinship in the West11. China: The Kinship Society Granet and the Analects: Evolution of Kinship in ChinaFei Xiaotong: Field Work on Types of Family Life Altruism and Selfishness: A precarious Balance12. China: A Threatening Promise to the WestSummaries of the ChaptersConcluding Queries about Threats and PromisesBibliographyIndex