During the Ming-Qing dynastic transition, the contradictions and conflicts arising from the different political systems, ways of rule, living styles and organization modes of economic life between the Manchu and the H...
Although national learning, i.e., traditional Chinese learning, has been affected by the onslaught of Western learning, its pulse still beats strongly. Its intellectual essence consists in the Chinese emphasis on a co...
Since the 1970s, with the rapid rise of modernization in Japan and the "Four Small Asian Dragons," and especially following the great and universally acknowledged achievements of China's in-depth reform and opening...
In the Confucian value system the core values like benevolence, propriety, righteousness and filial piety are all oriented in society. Many other ideas expounded by Confucian scholars all show the tendency to set a hi...
holds that the Yan-Li thinkers of the early Qing Dynasty opposed the Neo-Confucian orthodoxy of the period.They repudiated Neo-Confucian thinking and advocated empirical positivism,thus establishing an intellec-tual b...