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Western Civilization with Chinese Comparisons: Essential Readings
Professors Blair and McCormack have co-authored this sourcebook to
introduce Western Civilization to Chinese readers (or vice versa). It presumes
that most readers have little informed sense of their own civilizational origins,
even when they turn toward studying others. This book responds to a felt
educational need in both China and the West. This book is a unique one-stop
comparative culture approach to China and the West.
The readings excerpt major authors, whom students know largely by hearsay,
edited to facilitate comparing these two civilizations. Unconventionally, the
organization is not chronological but topical. This structure results from the
insistence of Chinese colleagues that they wanted a “genuinely comparative
course.” Thus the sourcebook itself is a product of cross-cultural negotiation.
In the present third edition, designed as a one-semester course, the readings
proceed through six topical modules that move from relatively concrete
comparisons to more abstract concerns: Learning, Familes, Defining Humans
(bodies and selves), Humans and their Surroundings (economics versus ecology), Humans
and Authority, Values and Worldviews. Each of these comparative modules is
divided into two segments: “traditional” and “modern.” Modernity is not
identified with a specific time period but to a process of calling traditions into
question. An appendix shows how recent Post-Modern perspectives challenge
traditional Western thinking. The main readings take up 622 pages.
The accompanying CD-ROM of 1680 pages includes essays on method, sample
comparison essays, nuggets for further comparative research and introductions
to important cultural formations such as Judeo-Christianity, modern Western
science, or Daoism. Many alternative readings also appear here, arranged
according to historical periods in each civilization. LINK TO NEXT SEGMENT
Professors Blair and McCormack have co-authored this sourcebook to
introduce Western Civilization to Chinese readers (or vice versa). It presumes
that most readers have little informed sense of their own civilizational origins,
even when they turn toward studying others. This book responds to a felt
educational need in both China and the West. This book is a unique one-stop
comparative culture approach to China and the West.
The readings excerpt major authors, whom students know largely by hearsay,
edited to facilitate comparing these two civilizations. Unconventionally, the
organization is not chronological but topical. This structure results from the
insistence of Chinese colleagues that they wanted a “genuinely comparative
course.” Thus the sourcebook itself is a product of cross-cultural negotiation.
In the present third edition, designed as a one-semester course, the readings
proceed through six topical modules that move from relatively concrete
comparisons to more abstract concerns: Learning, Familes, Defining Humans
(bodies and selves), Humans and their Surroundings (economics versus ecology), Humans
and Authority, Values and Worldviews. Each of these comparative modules is
divided into two segments: “traditional” and “modern.” Modernity is not
identified with a specific time period but to a process of calling traditions into
question. An appendix shows how recent Post-Modern perspectives challenge
traditional Western thinking. The main readings take up 622 pages.
The accompanying CD-ROM of 1680 pages includes essays on method, sample
comparison essays, nuggets for further comparative research and introductions
to important cultural formations such as Judeo-Christianity, modern Western
science, or Daoism. Many alternative readings also appear here, arranged
according to historical periods in each civilization. LINK TO NEXT SEGMENT
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