Pub Date : 1993-07-01DOI: 10.2753/CSP1097-1467240447
Liu Zheng
Even someone who is not knowledgeable about the study of the Yijing (Classic of change) will probably not deny that the study of the Yijing has today once more become a prominent field of scholarship. Today, in many bookstores and bookselling stalls dotting the streets in all the cities throughout the country, we can easily find books relating to the study of the Yijing sitting side by side with books that deal with such subjects as sexual physiology and psychology, or even "literary" magazines and periodicals that are highly and explicitly sexual or "erotic" in their contents and descriptions. This is a fact that those of us who are used to discussing the Yijing as some lofty and high-brow philosophy may not wish to acknowledge, but it is also something we simply cannot deny or dismiss out of hand. Within the last decade, our country's publishers, large and small, have published and republished thirty to forty works on the study of the Yijing, and two to three hundred articles on the subject have been pu...
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Pub Date : 1993-04-01DOI: 10.2753/CSP1097-1467240372
Chen Rongjie, Wing-tsit Chan
In the fifth year of the reign of Shaoxi [in the Song dynasty]—in other words, in the year 1194 A.D.—Zhu Xi (1130-1200) was returning to his home province after he had been relieved of his position at court as daizhi shijiang (junior court lecturer) when, in the eleventh month of that year he came to Yushan county in Jiangxi Province. The governor of the district invited Master Zhu to give a number of lectures at the local county (pari) school, and Master Zhu complied, discoursing on essential teachings in response to the questions that were raised by the students as well as in response to the lectures given by other scholars. At one point, the record says, the scholar Cheng Gong1 rose to ask the question: "Philosophers prior to the Three Ages only spoke about zhong (middle, or moderation) and ji (extreme, or ultimate); how come, then, that when it came to the time of the dialogues of those in the school of Confucius, everything seemed to revolve around the word ren (benevolence, or compassionate humanene...
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Pub Date : 1993-04-01DOI: 10.2753/CSP1097-146724033
Chen Lai
At one time, modern historians had come to be accustomed to using the paradigm of "Western challenge-Chinese response" to describe the development of modern China since the Opium War. However, in the past few decades, some scholars have begun to offer a very different opinion and argument. This is not only because Arnold J. Toynbee's "challenge and response" theory has continued to be repeatedly criticized and examined in a more unfavorable light, but also because people have come to believe that the lessons of Chinese history over the past century and a half cannot simply be summarized as an outward response to the modern civilization, or the civilization of modernity, represented by the West, and that the conflict between the two—[i.e., between China and the West] must be resolved only through China's own modernization. Nonetheless, from a macrocultural perspective, the question of how a premodernistic Chinese culture may produce a creative response to the modernized culture of the West has remained and...
近代历史学家一度习惯于用“西方挑战—中国应对”的范式来描述鸦片战争以来近代中国的发展。然而,在过去的几十年里,一些学者开始提出一种非常不同的观点和论点。这不仅是因为汤因比(Arnold J. Toynbee)的“挑战与回应”理论不断受到更不利的批评和审视,还因为人们开始相信,过去一个半世纪的中国历史教训不能简单地概括为对以西方为代表的现代文明或现代性文明的一种外在回应,而两者之间的冲突——即对西方文明的一种外在回应。只有通过中国自身的现代化才能解决中国与西方之间的矛盾。然而,从宏观文化的角度来看,一个前现代主义的中国文化如何对西方的现代化文化产生创造性的反应的问题仍然存在,并且……
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Pub Date : 1993-04-01DOI: 10.2753/CSP1097-1467240341
Zheng Jiadong
(Editor's comment: The "modern-day New Confucianism" is a school of scholarly thought [or, one may say, a cultural-intellectual wave] that stands on the teachings of Confucianism as its indigenous foundation for the absorption and assimilation of, and the harmonizing with, Western teachings, and that was produced in the 1920s. This, at least is the summation that some of the scholars in China today have made of the ideas of the "modern-day New Confucianist thought." It is by no means accidental that the modern-day New Confucianist wave of ideas was produced after the May Fourth Movement. As we analyze the socio-historical background and the cultural background in which the modern-day New Confucianism was produced, we may find new light being shed on certain important problems related to the transformation of Chinese culture. How, then, do we assess the fact that the modern-day New Confucianists are attempting to resolve the many problems of the relationship between tradition and modernization and between ...
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Pub Date : 1992-10-01DOI: 10.2753/CSP1097-146724013
Liu Xiaogan
In the last part of the volume, we shall study the ideas of latter-day schools of Zhuang Zi's teachings on the basis of the so-called outer chapters (wai bian) and irregular, or miscellaneous, chapters (za bian) of the text known as Zhuang Zi. We shall not, however, be making a full, comprehensive study of either of these outer and miscellaneous chapters of Zhuang Zi, nor shall we be making a full study of the ideas of latter-day schools of Zhuang Zi teachings. Rather, we will be studying the ideas of these latter-day Zhuang Zi schools from the angle of exploring the various strands and lines of thought followed by the evolution of Zhuang Zi's philosophy down through the ages. In the third chapter of Part 1 of this book, we have already made rather detailed research and argumentation regarding the classification of the outer and miscellaneous chapters of the book Zhuang Zi, and we have separated the "essays" in these outer and miscelleneous chapters largely into three groups, representing the works of thr...
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Pub Date : 1992-10-01DOI: 10.2753/CSP1097-1467240155
Yang Dayong
Yan Fu was the first Chinese person to introduce the teachings of the West to China systematically. Since returning to China from Britain, to which he had been sent to study in 1879, he held an office at the Beiyang Naval College (Beiyang shuishi xuetang) until leaving the institution in 1900. These twenty-some years were precisely the direst moment in the intensifying of China's social crisis, when the imperialists were pressing their aggression toward China and China was being brought to the brink of being partitioned outright. At the time, all the progressive intellectuals in China were worried for the future of the motherland, and pressed on to find what they considered to be the truth of national salvation. The bourgeois reformist faction of the day, with Kang Youwei as its leader, advocated political and legal reform (bianfa weixin) and was tremendously enthusiatic and active in pleading its case throughout China, calling on the intellectuals to respond. Yan Fu, too, at this time, did a large amount...
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Pub Date : 1992-04-01DOI: 10.2753/CSP1097-14672303043
Nick Knight
Analysis of the study of Mao Zedong's philosophical thought in contemporary China is significant for a number of reasons. First, such a project has considerable relevance for Mao studies in the West. Since the early 1980s, Mao scholars in China have pursued their own research in an atmosphere more amenable to academic investigation and judgement than was previously possible. An important consequence of this has been that a number of the documentary and empirical revelations contained in Mao scholarship in China have added considerably to what is known in the West about the development of Mao's thought; indeed, in some instances, the publication of hitherto unknown writings on philosophy by Mao and commentaries on them suggest that earlier debates amongst Western Mao scholars should be reopened and judgements perhaps revised.1 Moreover, the debates amongst Chinese Mao scholars have quite frequently cut across areas of contention amongst Mao scholars in the West, and a considerable number of fresh perspecti...
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Pub Date : 1992-04-01DOI: 10.2753/CSP1097-1467230304247
Li Ji
From the perspective of philosophy, the study of Mao Zedong's thought and practice from the founding of the Party to the Great Revolution (1921-1927) has now developed to a new stage. The study of political thought has progressed to the study of philosophical thought; the study of the philosophical thought in certain of his representative writings has progressed to the study of his philosophical thought in the entire historical period; and the study of the philosophical thought of Mao Zedong the individual has progressed to the study of its integration with the philosophical thought of other leaders of our Party.
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Pub Date : 1992-04-01DOI: 10.2753/CSP1097-1467230304126
Shi Zhongquan
The soon to be published The Philosophical Annotations of Mao Zedong is yet another volume in the specialist series of works by Mao Zedong compiled by the Chinese Communist Party's Central Documents Research Centre (in conjunction with other units). This volume contains annotations on and extracts from the Marxist philosophical books studied by Mao Zedong from the 1930s to the 1960s, and it is the first time that the bulk of these has been published. Its publication provides the study of Mao Zedong's thought, and in particular Mao's philosophical thought, a large number of valuable documentary materials possessing great theoretical and actual significance. This article will provide a brief introduction to this volume.
本文将简要介绍这一卷。
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Pub Date : 1992-04-01DOI: 10.2753/CSP1097-1467230304233
Huang Yicheng
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