Concise Reader of Chinese Culture (eBook)

This book uses the mutual interactions between Chinese and Western culture as a point of departure in order to concisely introduce the origins and evolution of Chinese culture at the aspects of constitution, thinking, values and atheistic. This book also analyzes utensil culture, constitution culture and ideology culture, which were perfected by absorbing classic arguments from academia. As such, the book offers an essential guide to understanding the development, civilization and key ideologies in Chinese history, and will thus help to promote Chinese culture and increase cultural awareness.

Chunsong Gan (1965-) born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang province. He is Ph.D. in Philosophy, and currently a professor at Peking University. His other duties include standing vice president of Chinese Confucius Academy and Thaishan Scholar at Chinese Research Institute of Confucius. His main research fields are Confucianism; ideology and culture in China. He published about 14 monographs and 18 papers. His major works include Constitutional Confucianism, Back to Wangdao: Confucianism and World Order, etc.

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This book uses the mutual interactions between Chinese and Western culture as a point of departure in order to concisely introduce the origins and evolution of Chinese culture at the aspects of constitution, thinking, values and atheistic. This book also analyzes utensil culture, constitution culture and ideology culture, which were perfected by absorbing classic arguments from academia. As such, the book offers an essential guide to understanding the development, civilization and key ideologies in Chinese history, and will thus help to promote Chinese culture and increase cultural awareness.