The Transcendental and the Mundane读书介绍
| 类别 | 页数 | 译者 | 网友评分 | 年代 | 出版社 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 书籍 | 330页 | 2021 | 香港中文大學出版社 |
| 定价 | 出版日期 | 最近访问 | 访问指数 |
|---|---|---|---|
| USD 55.00 | 2021-04-01 … | 2022-08-11 … | 1 |
Revisiting the foundation of Chinese spiritual life, the prestigious historian Cho-yun Hsu seeks a way to connect Chinese culture with the world.
Through investigation of Chinese cultural ideals and life practices, Prof. Cho-yun Hsu constructs an original portrait of Chinese spiritual life. Apart from focusing on the exalted subtleties of the scholarly elite, Prof. Hsu pays more attention to the everyday people’s cultural idea. By examining their daily practices (including eating, living, medical practices, poems, songs, art, and literature) and “collective memory” such as legends, he seeks to clarify Chinese ideas concerning the universe, human life and nature, from traditional times down to the present day. Different from Judeo-Christian tradition centered on “God,” the spiritual life of the Chinese people develops around ideas of being “human,” and thus cultivating an interactive relationship between man, time, and space.
Prof. Hsu considers the mode and direction of Chinese culture will impact the future of the entire world. Based on his observation, Western civilization represented by Europe and America nowadays is on the verge of a great change. The problems they are facing, including various crises of alienation and separation from nature, are, in terms of their basic origins, problems for which Western civilization lacks the resources to arrive at a solution. Thus, Chinese culture centered on the man and on the idea of intimate, interdependent relations between man and nature, might offer another solution. It is expected that, by integrating its features into modern civilization, Chinese culture can continue to prosper and be of benefit to the future of the world.
作者简介Cho-yun Hsu, an internationally recognized authority on Chinese history, is University Professor Emeritus of the University of Pittsburgh. He earned his BA and MA from National Taiwan University and his PhD. from the University of Chicago. He has authored or coauthored numerous publications, including China: A New Cultural History (2012), Western Chou Civilization (1988), Han A...
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