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Anticipating China: Thinking through the Narratives of Chinese and Western Culture

Anticipating China: Thinking through the Narratives of Chinese and Western Culture

Ames, Roger T.
Hall, David L.

Paperback

General Sociology

ISBN10: 0791424782
ISBN13: 9780791424780
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Aug 23 1995
Pages: 358
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.08
Language: English

Shows that failure to assess the significant cultural differences between China and the West has seriously affected our understanding of both classical and contemporary China, and makes the translation of attitudes, concepts, and issues extremely problematic.

By providing parallel accounts of the contrasting developments of classical Chinese and Western traditions, Anticipating China offers a means of avoiding the implicit cultural biases which so often distort Western understanding of Chinese intellectual culture. The book shows that failure to assess the significant cultural differences between China and the West has seriously affected our understanding of both classical and contemporary China, and makes the translation of attitudes, concepts, and issues extremely problematic.

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