Title China : promise or threat? : a comparison of cultures / by Horst J. Hell.

Publication Info.

Brill : Boston, [2017]

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
All Libraries - Shared Downloadable Materials	JSTOR Open Access Ebook	Downloadable
All patrons click here to access this title from JSTOR
University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Internet	WORLD WIDE WEB E-BOOK JSTOR	Downloadable
Please click here to access this JSTOR resource
University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Internet	WORLD WIDE WEB E-BOOK Brill	Downloadable
Please click here to access this Brill resource

Description	1 online resource.
Series	Studies in critical social sciences ; volume 96
	Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 96.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Foreword: a fascination with china / by David Fasenfest -- Preface -- Introduction: the goal of this book -- Familism : a threat to the environment -- Exchanges of threats : the opium wars -- China and the US : a balance of power? -- Religions: core components of cultures -- Religious vitality in contemporary China -- Max Weber's view of religion in China -- Daoism : China's native religion -- Oracle-bones : the mandate of heaven -- Confucius : recapture the lost splendor -- The West : individualism at its limits -- China : the kinship society -- China : a threatening promise to the West.
Summary	In China: Promise or Threat? Helle compares the cultures of China and the West through both private and public spheres. For China, the private sphere of family life is well developed while behaviour in public relating to matters of government and the law is less reliable. In contrast, the West operates in reverse. The book's twelve chapters investigate the causes and effects of threats to the environment, military confrontations, religious differences, fundamentals of cultural history, and the countries' orientations for finding solutions to societal problems, all informed by the Confucian impulse to recapture the lost splendour of a past versus faith in progress toward a blessed future. The West has promoted individualism while China is locked in its kinship society.
Note	Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Subject	China -- Social conditions.
	China -- Cultural policy -- History.
	China -- Social life and customs.
	China -- Religion.
	China -- Foreign relations.
	Cultural policy. (OCoLC)fst00885007
	Diplomatic relations. (OCoLC)fst01907412
	Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
	Religion. (OCoLC)fst01093763
	Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
	China. (OCoLC)fst01206073
	(DE-601)106317520 (DE-588)4020588-5 Gesellschaft.
	(DE-601)104152044 (DE-588)4077575-6 Soziale Situation.
	(DE-601)106256629 (DE-588)4033581-1 Kulturpolitik.
	(DE-601)10445833X (DE-588)4133734-7 Familienbeziehung.
	(DE-601)106187155 (DE-588)4049396-9 Religion.
	(DE-601)104289031 (DE-588)4009937-4 China.
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Helle, Horst Jürgen. China. Brill : Boston, [2016] 9789004298200 (DLC) 2016034846
ISBN	9789004330603 (electronic bk.)
	9004330607 (electronic bk.)
	9789004298200 (hardback ;) (alk. paper)

-->

Permanent Link

Add a Review

Title China : promise or threat? : a comparison of cultures / by Horst J. Hell.

Copies

Library Links

Search Tools

Language Settings