scholarly journals The Transnational Order of qing 情 (Feelings) Corruption Cases in Qiu Xiaolong’s A Case of Two Cities

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melinda Pirazzoli
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
World Population ◽  
National Narrative ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Negative Pole ◽  
Traditional Chinese Culture ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
Contemporary Chinese

This study will discuss Qiu Xiaolong’s ambivalent, yet powerful response to what Shu-Mei Shih defines as “suturing calls of Chineseness from China” (Shih 2011, 710). The first section of the study will concentrate on what one may define as Qiu’s ‘aesthetics of crime’ as well as his scathing critique to the contemporary Chinese society, “corrupt throughout” (Qiu 2006, 15). The second part will focus instead on Qiu’s homage to traditional Chinese culture. In particular, it will underscore his attempts to create what one may define a ‘trans-national narrative of qing’. Such an analysis will lead us to conclude that Qiu Xiaolong’s narratives are built in order to convey that “globalization straddles the negative pole of alien and the positive pole of English, reshuffling world population, concepts, and goods and services like iron filings” (Ma 2014, xi).

scholarly journals A Behavioural Study on the Influences of Confucianism in Chinese Society

2019 ◽  
pp. 109-132
Author(s):  
Helal Uddin Ahmed ◽  
Zhang Jielin
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Population ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
World History ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Traditional Chinese Culture ◽  
Contemporary Chinese

Confucius (551-479 BC) is considered to be a great philosopher and educator in Chinese society and one of the greatest scholars ever in world history. He was the founder of Confucianism, which constitutes a major part of traditional Chinese culture and made tremendous contribution to the unfolding of Chinese civilization over the centuries. In this study, the authors have presented a comprehensive outline of Confucianism and have attempted to gauge the attitude of contemporary Chinese people towards Confucian concepts, values and attributes as well as their influences on the social lives of present-day Chinese population. The Likert Scale was applied in the study to assess the attitude of the Chinese educated class belonging to the educational institutions like the universities in Beijing towards Confucianism. It was found from the survey that the Confucian concepts still wield substantial influence on the social outlook of the modern-day Chinese people and these attributes are still relevant in the day to day lives of the Chinese society. Philosophy and Progress, Vol#61-62; No#1-2; Jan-Dec 2017 P 109-132

Three-fold Thinking on the Sinicization of Christianity

2015 ◽  
Vol 75 (5) ◽  
pp. 385-394
Author(s):  
Zhang Zhigang
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Christianity In China ◽  
Reform And Opening Up ◽  
Contemporary Chinese ◽  
Opening Up

Abstract This essay investigates the concept of »Sinicization of Christianity« from an »academic« standpoint, the goal being to discuss more objectively and rationally how Christianity may be able to meld into Chinese culture, the Chinese nation, and in particular, contemporary Chinese society. The investigation is presented in three parts: a comparison between the histories of Christianity in China and Korea, a study of the ecological situation of religions in contemporary China, and new developments in international research on interreligious dialogue. The article concludes that social practice should be the main criterion for testing religious faith, and that, based on China’s current conditions, the best course for the Sinicization of Christianity is to make positive and important contributions to continued reform and opening-up of Chinese society and to its development and progress.

The paradigms of religious and philosophical plurality

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiziana Lippiello
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Chinese Values ◽  
Philosophy And Religion ◽  
Traditional Chinese Culture ◽  
Chinese Scholars ◽  
China Today

The beginning of the twentieth century marked the confutation and negation of traditional Chinese values by intellectuals, who thought that Confucianism, and in general traditional Chinese culture, had hindered scientific, economic, and social progress. Nonetheless, we are now witnessing a revival of the tradition, from a political and cultural perspective, aiming to address and provide resolutions to the contradictions and issues of contemporary societies. Which are the most valuable traditions in China today, and what is their impact on Chinese society? This paper will provide some of the theories promoted by Chinese scholars and their interpretation of the role of philosophy and religion today.

14 Public Sphere and Open Society from the Perspective of Axial Age China

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heiner Roetz
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Political System ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Open Society ◽  
Textual Evidence ◽  
Negative Factor ◽  
Confucian Values ◽  
Contemporary Chinese

AbstractThe open society together with a pluralistic public sphere is a cornerstone of modernity and a necessary element of democracy. However, it has been maintained that the possibility of such a society depends on liberal convictions that are not applicable to non-Western cultures and also contradict the Confucian value orientation.The article argues that such an assumption is based on a number of problematic premises. There is no one-sided dependence of the socio-political system on culture, and the contemporary Chinese society is much too diverse to be dominated by Confucian values. Moreover, China’s cultural history and also Confucianism can be brought into the debate in yet another way than as a negative factor inhibiting and restricting an open society. There is textual evidence that forms of open society existed already in ancient China. Though they were not always supported by the elite, China’s intellectual heritage offers enough points of reference in order to refute the claim that the open society is an alien element in Chinese culture.

Blat and Guanxi: Informal Practices in Russia and China

2008 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alena Ledeneva
Keyword(s):  
Language Games ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Market Reforms ◽  
Short Supply ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Informal Practices ◽  
Contemporary Chinese ◽  
Formal Procedures

This paper compares informal practices used to obtain goods and services in short supply and to circumvent formal procedures in Russia and China, and assesses their changes and continuities during the market reforms. I divide my presentation into four parts. The first tackles similarities between blat and guanxi under socialism: language games and idioms that referred to these practices; similar pressures of the shortage economy that forced individuals to satisfy their needs through informal exchanges; and the contradictory role of informal practices—they supported but also subverted the socialist systems. In the second part I shift my focus to the differences between blat and guanxi that stem from different cultural traditions in the two societies. These traditions determine the moral force of reciprocity, the degree of codification of informal practices, and their legitimacy. The third part illustrates differences in market reforms in China and in Russia. Finally, I compare blat and guanxi practices as responses to these reforms and discuss both intriguing similarities and significant differences in the new forms of guanxi and blat. Thus, the post-Soviet reforms have changed informal practices so much that blat has almost lost its relevance as a term that describes the corrupt use of personal networks in contemporary Russia. In contemporary Chinese society, by contrast, guanxi has deeper roots in kinship structures and traditions, and both the term and guanxi practices continue to be important.1 The partial nature of reforms in China and the persistence of communist rule may account for some of this difference, but we must also consider a range of historical and cultural factors that shape and help reproduce informal practices.

Structure and Mechanism of Organizational Interpersonal Harmony in Chinese Business

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chih-Chung Chen
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Turnover Intention ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Chinese Business ◽  
Theoretical Structure ◽  
Traditional Chinese Culture

Harmony is not only an important value in traditional Chinese culture, but also a key to social development in modern Chinese society. In this study, I explored the theoretical structure and influence of organizational interpersonal harmony on organizational commitment and turnover intention. Interviews with 52 Chinese managers revealed 3 dimensions of interpersonal harmony. An organizational interpersonal harmony scale was then developed and pretested on 117 employees. Further, I conducted a field study of 480 employees from 8 Chinese organizations to test a 2-hierarchy structure of organizational interpersonal harmony. Using hierarchical regression, I found that organizational interpersonal harmony had a positive impact on organizational commitment and a negative impact on turnover intention.

scholarly journals Глобализация (全球化) как лингвокультурный феномен в жизни современного Китая

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-22
Author(s):  
K. M. Naumova
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Value System ◽  
Chinese Youth ◽  
The World ◽  
Traditional Chinese Culture ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
State Of Affairs

На примере личных бесед с носителями языка, работ Ван Мэна, Линь Юйтана, а также российских и зарубежных исследователей в области социолингвистики, политологии и международных отношений мы постарались обозначить один из возможных взглядов Китая на глобализацию как на лингвокультурный феномен. Особое внимание в работе уделено лингвистическому анализу лексемы 全球化 цюаньцюхуа ‘глобализация’ с целью составления списка тем и устойчивых словосочетаний, показывающих, какие ассоциации чаще всего вызывает данное понятие в обыденном сознании носителей китайского языка. Представляется, что китайское общество будет стремиться найти баланс между традиционными воззрениями и западными идеалами, стараясь дать новую жизнь исконно-китайским понятиям и ценностям. In the era of globalization many countries around the world are in the search for their new national identity. China is no exception here. Everybody will agree that it has changed a lot in terms of its economic development for the last 20 years thanks to the governmental reforms and efforts. Besides, the famous traditional Chinese culture has been undergoing some changes in its value system, which can be seen not only in the new ways of social behavior, but also in the language. Here we will analyze the contexts, in which the word 全球化 quánqiúhuà ‘globalization’ is used by the native speakers, and try to find the most commonly used expressions in order to illustrate the associations it evokes in their minds. Then we will try to show the attitudes of Chinese youth towards globalization based on the publications and private talks, as well as the views of the older generation represented by the works of Wang Meng and Lin Yutang. Furthermore, this new state of affairs is quite beneficial for the Chinese governmental policy that wants to play an important role in building the world’s prosperity. Thus, Chinese society will try to find a balance between new ideas and its traditional culture with the emphasis on the renewal of the latter

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