Our Country's Ancient Learning Has a Mandate for Renewal

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“”“”“”“”“”“”“” : 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 complementary “relationship” of differences that takes shape in the course of production and life and on the harmonious “whole,” together with Chinese efforts to control their own destiny by virtue of this relationship and this whole. The “learning” in national learning revolves around man and is vividly manifested in the Confucian concept of “benevolence” or human‐heartedness (ren ). If one were to say that Chinese modernization is nothing other than the Chinese nation's “self‐”transformation and transcendence under the impact of external forces, then it is national learning that can provide significant intellectual resources for modern Chinese to go about their lives and work through the transmission and extension of the idea of “benevolence.” However, this can only happen if culture and scholarship are fully “self‐aware.”View full textDownload full textKeywordsChinese national learning, Confucianism, West learning, ConfuciusRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02529201003794825