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This innovative book introduces China on its own terms by explaining ten key concepts that frame the way most Chinese people think about the world. Creating a cultural cartography through both text and image, the authors provide readers with a vivid sense of what is uniquely Chinese about China.
- Sales Rank: #939331 in Books
- Published on: 2015-08-01
- Released on: 2015-08-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.96" h x .70" w x 6.04" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 328 pages
Review
This book is by two senior scholars of American and English literature and civilization who have spent over a decade teaching graduate students in Beijing and have supplemented their personal experiences with extensive reading in secondary studies on contemporary China in English. In part I, the heart of their book (ten chapters), they discuss ten words offered as keys to Chinese thinking today and yesteryear, accompanied by well-chosen examples. Emphasizing continuities in time and space within China and the West and concentrating on the differences between these two traditions, the authors are more sensitive to Western than to Chinese exceptions to their thoughtful and thought-provoking generalizations. Part II consists of four chapters, on Christianity, human rights, democracy, and Chinese views on China's place in the world. In the short, concluding Part III, ‘Rethinking the West,’ the authors urge readers to reconsider their own thinking. In sum, this is a welcome book—very 21st century—reflecting how attitudes have changed both within and beyond China and useful for considering the present situation. (CHOICE)
You get two fascinating books for the price of one in Thinking through China: a window for viewing many key dimensions of contemporary Chinese culture, and a mirror for viewing our own.
(Henry Rosemont, Jr., Brown University)
Thinking through China is an enjoyable and informative introduction to key thought patterns in Chinese civilization. The work is filled with illuminating examples of cultural differences that should be of particular interest to Western readers who seek to learn more about what makes China tick. (Daniel A. Bell, Tsinghua University; author of The China Model)
In Thinking through China, Jerusha McCormack and John Blair draw upon their decades-long sojourn in a Chinese world to invite their readers to think with them through the most enduring values and customs of an antique China—a China whose rise in our own historical moment is changing the world. This capacious tour de force takes us down a portal to the other side of the looking glass to make penetrating comparisons between profoundly different ways of thinking and living and our own thick cultural assumptions, requiring of us nothing less than to struggle with imagination to break through the limits of our own common sense. Indeed, ‘we will know differently when we know more.’ (Roger T. Ames, University of Hawai'i)
As someone who works with teachers through the National Consortium for Teaching About Asia, I can say that this is a fabulous resource. McCormack and Blair have spent years refining their ideas about the essential values underlying Chinese culture. Their goal has been to instruct Western students to better understand Chinese culture and its accompanying behaviors. Equally important has been their interest in teaching Chinese students to understand Western culture and the behavior of people from Western countries....Thinking through China is much more sophisticated, accessible, and valuable than most other books dealing with this topic. (Diana Marston Wood, University of Pittsburgh)
This innovative book introduces China on its own terms by explaining ten key concepts that frame the way most Chinese people think about the world. Posing four questions that Westerners routinely ask about China, the authors respond using these ten Chinese key words. Not surprisingly, the answers differ in startling ways from standard Western responses. Creating a cultural cartography through both text and image, the authors provide readers with a vivid sense of what is uniquely Chinese about China.
About the Author
Jerusha McCormack is professor emeritus of English and American literature at University College, Dublin.
John G. Blair is professor emeritus of American literature and civilization at the University of Geneva. For more than a decade, they have been teaching as Foreign Experts in the School of English and International Studies at Beijing Foreign Studies University.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Valuable Insights Into Chinese Culture
By J. Michael Newlight
Why did I read this book? I’m not an academic, nor a student of matters Chinese, just a college-educated retiree with a background in finance who recognizes that the 21st Century will be vastly different from the 20th, and that understanding what makes the Chinese tick might be important.
First of all, let me say that the book is exceptionally well-organized and clearly written – there were chapters in which the clarity was exhilarating, as though little “a-ha” bulbs were lighting up my brain. Ok, maybe the double espresso helped...
Seriously, this is anything but the feared slog through an impenetrable recitation of dates, emperors and dynasties. Rather, in Part I, the authors progress through ten interrelated concepts (such as “Where Is My Mind?” and “The Energy Unifying the World”) which are fundamental to the Chinese world view, offering explanation, as well as comparison to the corresponding (or conflicting) Western correlates.
In Part II, four questions which we Westerners commonly pose about China are examined, in light of the ten foundational concepts previously explored: the place of Christianity in China, human rights, democracy and world domination. The authors’ answers to these questions are well-supported by the conceptual foundation they have built. Here is a quotation from the chapter entitled “Ruling The World?” (p.239) which, in my opinion, is representative: “…it is almost always a mistake to read Chinese ambitions as echoes of Western-style imperatives.”
Finally, there is Part III, “Rethinking The West”, in which the authors use the description of Chinese culture which they’ve developed as a mirror in which we in the West can better see ourselves. They refer to “…a new mode of assessing, one that moves away from a rhetoric of finding ‘the truth’… to one that acknowledges, Chinese style, that one is continuously situated differently in relation to ‘truth’.” (p.260) And then they refer to the American tradition of Pragmatism, including reference to the American philosopher Richard Rorty. I was reminded of Rorty’s distinction between the Ironist and the Metaphysician: the Ironist is willing to question his/her “final vocabulary”, while the Metaphysician is not. “Final vocabulary”, in my simplistic definition, is merely that packet of first principles, fundamental concepts against which all others are measured.
Thus, the authors are encouraging us to question our own most fundamental notions about China, about ourselves and how we see the world, and they portray this ongoing examination of “truths” as quintessentially Chinese, in opposition to the Western tendency to cling to the “Truth”.
In the words of Voltaire, “Cherish those who seek the truth; beware of those who find it.”
Or, as I would put it more bluntly, if you cannot look at yourself in the mirror every morning and accept the fact that everything you think and know may be complete bunk, then you run the risk of becoming roadkill… perhaps on a Chinese superhighway.
If you have any curiosity at all about China in the 21st century and the relation of all things Chinese to the West, read this book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
and I guess that western readers will also enjoy reading and will certianly find it very usefull understanding ...
By LIANG Wenxuan
Being a Chinese reader myself, I am enjoying a lot reading the book , and oftern amused by the examples illustrated ,which are so typical of the Chinese way of life and its state of mind, of which I am more oftern unconsciouse . The authors of the book have explained very well why we Chinses are what we are now,by citing 10 key concepts of the Chinese culture and of which I find true indeed,.....
So I feel this book is an unique one explaining the Chinese customas and culture ,,and I guess that western readers will also enjoy reading and will certianly find it very usefull understanding today's China
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
An indispensable resource for understanding China
By Amazon Customer
As someone who works with teachers through the National Consortium for Teaching About Asia, I can say that this is a fabulous resource. McCormack and Blair have spent years refining their ideas about the essential values underlying Chinese culture. Their goal has been to instruct Western students to better understand Chinese culture and its accompanying behaviors. Equally important has been their interest in teaching Chinese students to understand Western culture and the behavior of people from Western countries. Since the '90's plenty of books have been published to accomplish this goal for Westerners who want to "do business" with the Chinese. THINKING THROUGH CHINA is much more sophisticated, accessible, and valuable than most other books dealing with this topic. Of the ten key words identified by the authors, two of the most useful are "Guanxi", the People Network, and "He", Thinking through Harmony. In the "Western Questions, Chinese Responses" section their treatment of the Human Rights situation may prove of greatest interest to all readers and especially teachers. I think this is a wonderful book.
Diana Marston Wood
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