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- The only work in English that brings together the later ideas of Professor Fei Xiaotong, one of the founding fathers of Chinese sociology and anthropology
- Describes and refines Fei’s concept of “cultural self-awareness,” which would be crucial for Chinese cultural transformation
- Proposes a paradigm of co-existence between different civilizations
Part of the book series: China Academic Library (CHINALIBR)
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This volume comprises some twenty articles, speeches and conversations of Fei Xiaotong from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. Their central connecting theme is how civilizations could co-exist against a backdrop of rapid globalization. Fei proposes his concept of “cultural self-awareness,” summarized in the axiom “each appreciates his own best, appreciates the best of others, all appreciate the best together for the greater harmony of all.” This is the result of many years of research and fieldwork, and represents a synthesis of his Western training and traditional Chinese thought.
Professor Fei Xiaotong was one of the most prominent Chinese sociologists and anthropologists in the last century, and a leading figure in Chinese intellectual circles. He was noted in the West for his Peasant Life in China, From the Soil and other works written during the 1930s and 1940s. His later important research and theoretical concepts, though extremely influential in China on both theoretical and practical levels, are almost unknown in international academia.
Authors and Affiliations
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Peking University, Beijing, China
Xiaotong Fei
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Globalization and Cultural Self-Awareness
Authors: Xiaotong Fei
Series Title: China Academic Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46648-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Publishing Co., Ltd and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-46647-6Published: 19 May 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51663-8Published: 29 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-46648-3Published: 30 April 2015
Series ISSN: 2195-1853
Series E-ISSN: 2195-1861
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 268
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural Studies