Modernisation of Chinese Culture

Continuity and Change
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4438-4593-9
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 420 Seiten

The editors are grateful to the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for its generous support of their research work which enabled them to publish the present book.

The present book carefully maps the Chinese modernisation discourse, highlighting its relationship to other, similar discourses, and situating it within historical and theoretical contexts. In contrast to the majority of recent discussions of a “Chinese development model” that tend to focus more on institutional then cultural factors, and are more narrowly concerned with economic matters than overall social development, the book offers several important focal points for many presently overlooked issues and dilemmas. The multifaceted perspectives contained in this anthology are not limited to economic, social, and ecological issues, but also include political and social functions of ideologies and cultural conditioned values, representing the axial epistemological grounds of modern Chinese society.

2011 was the 100th anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution. The centennial is relevant not only in terms of state ideology, but also plays a significant role within academic research into Chinese society and culture. This historic turning point likewise represents the symbolic and concrete linkages and tensions between tradition and modernity, progress and conservatism, traditional values and the demands for adjustment to contemporary societies.

The book shows that Chinese transition from tradition to modernity cannot be understood in a framework of a unified general model of society, but rather through a more complex insight into the interrelations among elements of physical environment, social structure, philosophy, history, and culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rošker, Jana S.

Vampelj Suhadolnik, Nataša

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Kultureller Wandel, Kulturkontakt, Akkulturation
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Jana S. Rošker is an expert in Chinese Studies and the Head of the Department of Asian and African Studies at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her research interests and publication areas are mainly in the fields of methodology of intercultural research, the traditional Chinese theory of perception, Chinese epistemology and comparative philosophy.

Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik is Assistant Professor of Chinese Art History at the Department of Asian and African Studies, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her research work and publication areas include Chinese traditional and modern art, the cosmological perception of the traditional society structure through art tendencies, Buddhist iconography and Chinese aesthetics.