中国智慧与西方的进步

Chinese Wisdom and Western Progess

东方在公元500到1800年这一历史时期远比西方发达。东方在西方现代文明的兴起过程中起着举足轻重的作用。东方影响的来源主要是中国。具有儒道精神传统的民族正不断建立生产和技术上的国际标准,而英美民族似乎无法再与之竞争。如果西方毫不理解东方文明的深邃和博大,那么,当东方的民族从西方的扩张和侵入所带来的震惊和破坏中苏醒过来时,西方就会变得脆弱和不堪一击。西方的方式跟中国的方式相比,存在更大的局限性。西方文明的未来出路在东方。

The East, which was more advanced than the West between 500 and 1800, played a fundamental role in the rise of modern Western civilization. The source of Eastern infl uence was as often as not China. They have made a practice of dictating right and wrong to others. Increasingly, peoples of Confucian and Daoist tradition establish global benchmarks for production and technology with which Anglo-American peoples no longer seem able to compete. If the western failed badly to comprehend anything like the full depth of East Asian civilization, it will leave itself highly vulnerable once the peoples of East Asia overcame the initial shock and disruption of Western expansion and intrusion. The Future of Western Civilization lies in the East.