Abstract
The issues of "how the west understands China" and "how China understands China" have been the two sides of the same coin in the global scholarship. Both China and the West are trapped by the same issue of understanding China, because modern Chinese social structure and basic aspects of mentality are shaped by modernity, and China and the west are equally confronted by the challenges of modernity under the circumstances of globalization. Chinese modernity came into being due to the western impact, and consequently Chinese tradition has become the Other for contemporary China, which means that there is a gap between tradition and modernity. A keen awareness of the fracture in China caused by modernity is helpful for us to reappreciate the value of tradition with a more pragmatic attitude. Seen positively, the inner tension of Chinese academic thought caused by the coexistence of tradition and modernity, China and the West, would breed cross-cultural potential to promote Chinese scholarship to complete self-construction through drawing on multifarious thoughts.
First Page
26
Last Page
34
Recommended Citation
Liu, Yiqing. 2017. "Our Modernity: The Cross-cultural Potential of Chinese Scholarship." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 37, (6): pp.26-34. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol37/iss6/17
