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A Manifesto for a Re-appraisal of Sinology and Reconstruction of Chinese Culture
Overview
"A Manifesto for a Re-appraisal of Sinology and Reconstruction of Chinese Culture" (Chinese: 為中國文化敬告世界人士宣言; pinyin: Wéi Zhōngguó Wénhuà Jìnggào Shìjiè Rénshì Xuānyán; also translated as "Declaration on Behalf of Chinese Culture Respectfully Announced to the People of the World") is a seminal 1958 essay that serves as a founding document of modern New Confucianism.
The manifesto was collectively authored by four prominent scholars: Carsun Chang (Zhang Junmai), Tang Chun-I (Tang Junyi), Mou Tsung-san (Mou Zongsan), and Hsu Fu-kuan (Xu Fuguan), all of whom were students of the philosopher Xiong Shili. In the document, the authors argue for the value and enduring relevance of Chinese philosophy and culture in the modern world. They seek to counter the prevailing trends of Western-centric historical analysis, advocating for a balanced dialogue between Chinese cultural traditions and Western modernity. The manifesto remains a primary text for understanding 20th-century Chinese intellectual history and the development of Confucian thought outside of mainland China.
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And there is perhaps no better definition of culture than that it is the capacity for constantly expanding the range and accuracy of one's perception of meanings. 1 Donaldson, Growth of Brain, p. 356. 2 We must not forget that Rousseau had the idea of a radically different sort of society, a fraternal society whose end should be identical with the good of all its members, which he thought to be as much better than…
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
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From an American standpoint, the open door principle represents one of the only two established principles of American diplomacy, the other being, of course, the Monroe Doctrine. In connection with sentimental or idealistic associations which have clustered about it, it constitutes us in some vague fashion in both the Chinese and American public opinion a sort of guardian or at least spokesman of the interests of…
John Dewey, China, Japan and the U.S.A.
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In the East, on the contrary, the substantial in Religion is certainly on its own view the principal matter, the essential—and with it lawlessness, the absence of individual consciousness is immediately connected—and this substance is undoubtedly a philosophic idea. The negation of the finite is also present, but in such a manner that the individual only reaches to its freedom in this unity with the substantial. In…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
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Philosophers who discussed A Manifesto for a Re-appraisal of Sinology and Reconstruction of Chinese Culture
Related ideas
- Tang Chun-i
- Xiong Shili
- Mou Tsung-san
- Neo-Confucianism
- New Confucianism
- Intellectual history
- Mainland China
- Chinese philosophy
- Hsu Fu-kuan
Place in the tradition
Part of New Confucianism.