China On The Mind

Author : Christopher Bollas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415669766
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China on the Mind written by Christopher Bollas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of years ago Indo-European culture diverged into Western and Eastern ways of thinking. Bollas examines how they are converging again in psychoanalysis.

Author : Christopher A. Ford
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813173779
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mind of Empire written by Christopher A. Ford and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-05-28 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last century, no other nation has grown and transformed itself with such zeal as China. With a booming economy, a formidable military, and a rapidly expanding population, China is emerging as a twenty-first-century global superpower. China's prosperity has increased dramatically in the last two decades, propelling the nation to a prominent position in the international community. Yet China's ancient history still informs and shapes its understanding of itself in relation to the world. As a highly developed and modern nation, China is something of a paradox. Though China is an international leader in modern business and technology, its past remains a source of guiding principles for the nation's foreign policy. In The Mind of Empire: China's History and Modern Foreign Relations, Christopher A. Ford demonstrates how China's historical awareness shapes its objectives and how the resulting national consciousness continues to influence the country's policymaking. Despite its increasing prominence among modern, developed nations, China continues to seek guidance from a past characterized by Confucian notions of hierarchical political order and a "moral geography" that places China at the center of the civilized world. The Mind of Empire describes how these attitudes have clashed with traditional Western ideals of sovereignty and international law. Ford speculates about how China's legacy may continue to shape its foreign relations and offers a warning about the potential global consequences. He examines major themes in China's conception of domestic and global political order, describes key historical precedents, and outlines the remarkable continuity of China's Sinocentric stance. Expertly synthesizing historical, philosophical, religious, and cultural analysis into a cohesive study of the Chinese worldview, Ford offers revealing insights into modern China. The Mind of Empire tracks China's astonishing development within the framework of a national ideology that is intrinsically linked to the distant past. Ford's perspective is both pertinent and prescient at a time when China is expanding into new areas of power, both economically and militarily. As China's power and influence continue to grow, its reliance on ancient philosophies and political systems will shape its approach to foreign policy in idiosyncratic and, perhaps, highly problematic ways.

Author : Edward Slingerland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190842326
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind and Body in Early China written by Edward Slingerland and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-23 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mind and Body in Early China critiques Orientalist accounts of early China as the radical, "holistic" other. The idea that the early Chinese held the "strong" holist view, seeing no qualitative difference between mind and body, has long been contradicted by traditional archeological and qualitative textual evidence. New digital humanities methods, along with basic knowledge about human cognition, now make this position untenable. A large body of empirical evidence suggests that "weak" mind-body dualism is a psychological universal, and that human sociality would be fundamentally impossible without it. Edward Slingerland argues that the humanities need to move beyond social constructivist views of culture, and embrace instead a view of human cognition and culture that integrates the sciences and the humanities. Our interpretation of texts and artifacts from the past and from other cultures should be constrained by what we know about the species-specific, embodied commonalities shared by all humans. This book also attempts to broaden the scope of humanistic methodologies by employing team-based qualitative coding and computer-aided "distant reading" of texts, while also drawing upon our current best understanding of human cognition to transform our basic starting point. It has implications for anyone interested in comparative religion, early China, cultural studies, digital humanities, or science-humanities integration.

Author : David M. Lampton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520254422
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Three Faces of Chinese Power written by David M. Lampton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “By learning more not only about China, but from China, America is more likely to sustain a constructive relationship with the rising China. Lampton insightfully provides us with the much-needed guidance.”–Zbigniew Brzezinski, Center for Strategic and International Studies "Professor Lampton's stimulating and well-researched book provides a comprehensive framework for intelligent thinking about the implications for the United States and the world of the rapid expansion of China's economic and military power. Serious students of world affairs and non-specialists concerned about the outlook for U.S.-China relations will all benefit from the historically-based insights and judgments that fill the pages of this thought-provoking volume."—J. Stapleton Roy, former United States ambassador to China

Author : Joseph R. Levenson
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789128226
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liang Ch’i Ch’ao and the Mind of Modern China written by Joseph R. Levenson and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distinction between “history” and “value” is the ground of this penetrating work. Liang Ch’i-ch’ao began writing in the 1890’s, as one who was straining against his tradition intellectually, seeing value elsewhere, but still emotionally tied to it, held by his history. How history contrived such a tension, how its release in Liang went together with the release of Confucian China from life, is the grand subject. And in drawing the times out of Liang’s intellectual life, Mr. Levenson contributes much of more general interest—a new understanding of the concepts of anachronism, analogy, contemporaneity, the generation, historical relativism, historical context, cultural and national identity, personal identity, and the distinction (crucial to comprehension of why ideas ever change) between “thinking” and “thought.” “A brilliant study of the life and work of an exceptional writer who shaped the political thought of modern China...Told with a humanist understanding far removed from the dry-as-dust manner usually ascribed to front-rank historians...this detailed account of a maker of modern China will interest not only the scholar in Far Eastern affairs, but will hold enthralled all students of the human mind in its never-ending quest for adjustment in a world of change.”—Asia Major “Why was the Confucian tradition found wanting? Why was westernization rejected? Why was Nationalism not enough for China? To these and many similar questions Liang’s life and writings provide the best answer. Mr. Levenson has interpreted them with real insight into the nature of Chinese civilization.”—Times Literary Supplement “Advances enough brilliant and challenging hypotheses to invigorate studies of Chinese intellectual history for a long time to come....[Levenson’s study] shows throughout a compassionate understanding of the harsh dilemmas, the bitter tragedies that the last century has brought to all Chinese.”—Arthur F. Wright

Author : Ruth Hayhoe
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9781563248313
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ma Xiangbo and the Mind of Modern China 1840-1939 written by Ruth Hayhoe and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1996 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I.A Listing of Ma Xiangbo's Books, Translations and Articles -- II. A Listing of Ma Xiangbo's Letters -- III. Articles and Commentaries Concerning Ma Xiangbo in the Chinese Press and Research Literature -- Glossary -- Index

Author : Jay Lifton
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
ISBN 13 : 1774646757
Total Pages : 643 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of Brainwashing in China written by Jay Lifton and published by Rare Treasure Editions. This book was released on 2024-03-12T00:00:00Z with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lifton's research for the book began in 1953 with a series of interviews with American servicemen who had been held captive during the Korean War. In addition to interviews with 25 Americans, Lifton also interviewed 15 Chinese who had fled their homeland after having been subjected to indoctrination in Chinese universities. From these interviews, which in some cases occurred regularly for over a year, Lifton identified the tactics used by Chinese communists to cause drastic shifts in one's opinions and personality and "brainwash" American soldiers into making demonstrably false assertions. This work has become a classic text in the field and continues to serve as a fundamental guide in the debriefing of former cult members.

Author : Harold R. Isaacs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317460073
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scratches on Our Minds written by Harold R. Isaacs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A presentation of eight contemporary Chinese women writers, representing two generations of women with different backgrounds and experiences. The selections explore esthetic, cultural and ideological problems that continue to challenge Chinese women.

Author : Diana Y. Paul
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Mind in Sixth-century China written by Diana Y. Paul and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maghiel van Crevel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004163824
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money written by Maghiel van Crevel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-10-02 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money is a groundbreaking study covering a range of contemporary authors and issues, from Haizi to Yin Lichuan and from poetic rhythm to exile-bashing. Its rigorous scholarship, literary sensitivity and lively style make it eminently fit for classroom use.