Recently, China Pictorial Publishing House launched a new collection of works that the master of traditional Chinese studies Gong Pengcheng has never published: "Gong Pengcheng: On the Balance of China and the West", jumping out of the traditional label restrictions, integrating the ancient and modern, and taking the West as the method to discuss the balance between China and the West.
Gong Pengcheng was born in Taipei In 1956 and is originally from Ji'an, Jiangxi. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Arts of Tamkang University, the founding president of the University of South China and Fo Guang University in Taiwan, and won the Taiwan Zhongshan Literature and Art Award, the Chung Hsing Literature and Art Award, the Outstanding Research Award and other awards, and the title of Top Ten Famous Teachers on the Taiwan Campus. Since 2004, he has served as a distinguished professor of Beijing Normal University and Peking University, and a chair professor of Shandong University. His major works include "Literary Walk", "Fifteen Lectures on Traditional Chinese Culture", "Discussion on Book Art", "Introduction to Traditional Chinese Studies", "Forty Self-Descriptions of Gong Pengcheng", "History of Chinese Poetry", "History of Chinese Literary Criticism", "History of Chivalry", etc. More than 160 kinds.
Gong Pengcheng's more labels are traditionalists and masters of traditional Chinese studies. He is from the Chinese Department, but Western aesthetics and literary theory, comparative literature is also his main business, he started the course "European View of China" in the 1990s, is China's earliest holistic study of Europe scholars, is the pioneer of modern postmodern theoretical research in Europe and the United States.
The West looks at China, which is strange, and Chinese look at the West is equally strange. In "Gong Pengcheng: The Balance of East and West", the author focuses on the similarities and differences and integration of different cultural backgrounds in the form of special topics. The 29 articles in the book cover literature, philosophy, art, history, the rule of law, science, religion and many other aspects, as well as the problems that arise globally. The author integrates ancient and modern, runs through China and the West, cites scriptures, has in-depth insights, takes the West as a method, discusses the balance between China and the West, and combines the traditional chinese and modern postmodern theories of Europe and the United States to apply to reality.
In the book, is there a mirror image of Chinese in the mirror of Western humanism? "The Position of Chinese in the World Language" and "The History of the Evolution of Chinese Characters in a Hundred Years" present the difference between Chinese's understanding of language and the influence of Chinese in the world; "The Difference between Chinese and Western Theater Concepts" uses the method of distinguishing Aristotle's "plot" words to show how and why Chinese and Western theater concepts are different; "What should Chinese and Western comparative cultural studies compare?" By introducing the ideas and progress of comparative cultural research, it explains the biggest difference between Chinese and Western cultures; as well as articles such as "Under the Face of Time", "Taking Socrates as a Mirror", "Montesquieu Confused China", "Chinese Does Not Like to Look at Faces", "The Cold History of Western Philosophy Has Been Pressed to the Ground and Rubbed", etc., discuss the similarities and differences and integration of China and the West in literature, aesthetics, philosophy, art, history, rule of law, science, religion and other fields.
The Xunzi Unmasking Chapter says: "Desire is hidden, evil is hidden, the beginning is hidden, the end is hidden, far is hidden, near is hidden, Bo is hidden, shallow is hidden, ancient is hidden, and now is hidden." All things are different, and the public suffering of this mental art is also. Mr. Gong Pengcheng's "Gong Pengcheng: The Balance of East and West" is to continue to carry forward this discussion of the Western method in the world of Sino-Western co-construction, and to unmask the Chinese people a little. Yangzi Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Huang Yanwen