Buch, Englisch, 308 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Buch, Englisch, 308 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
ISBN: 978-988-237-212-2
Verlag: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Revisiting the foundation of Chinese spiritual life, the prestigious historian Cho?yun Hsu seeks a way to connect Chinese culture with the world.
This book is an insightful and lively discussion of the spiritual life of the Chinese people. Through investigation of cultural ideals and life practices, Professor Cho?yun Hsu constructs an original portrait of Chinese cultural values. Apart from the exalted subtleties of the scholarly elite, he pays much attention to everyday people's daily practices and collective memory, seeking to clarify Chinese ideas concerning the universe, human life, and nature, from traditional times down to the present day.
Professor Hsu contends the problems Western civilization is facing nowadays, including various crises of alienation and separation from nature, are ones that it lacks resources to solve. He believes Chinese humanistic culture might offer another way forward and be of benefit to the future of the world.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Agnostizismus, Atheismus, Säkularer Humanismus
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Spiritualität, Mystik
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen
Weitere Infos & Material
- Chronology of Chinese Dynasties
- Translator's Foreword
- Foreword by Ying?shih Yu
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction Searching for the Spirit of Chinese Culture
- I. Life Aesthetics in Time and Space
- II. The World of Heaven and Earth, Humans and Gods
- III. Legends and Ghost Stories
- IV. A Plural, Interactive Order: The Five Elements, Chinese Medicine, and Chinese Cooking
- V. The Ever?Changing Universe
- VI. The Meaning of Life
- VII. The Many Gods Who Protect the People
- VIII. Secular Religion
- IX. The Human Networks that Bind Us
- X. The World Revealed in Novels
- Conclusion A New Life for Chinese Culture
