The socio-historical analysis of ＂Chinese Modernity＂ and ＂Chinese Cultural Identity＂ within the context of social transformation, by restoring the origin of modernity as a ＂historical event＂ since late Qing, lea...The socio-historical analysis of ＂Chinese Modernity＂ and ＂Chinese Cultural Identity＂ within the context of social transformation, by restoring the origin of modernity as a ＂historical event＂ since late Qing, leads to the finding that ＂the Deng Zheng-lai Problem＂ pinpoints the current crisis of cultural identity and the loss of Orthodoxy（daotong） which infects contemporary China. It is necessary to build and shape the mode of cultural identity in response to the pressure of rightness, creating ＂the identity of hybridity＂ by negotiating the classic tradition with the socialist tradition and a partial western tradition. By observing ＂the Deng- Hui frameworks＂ （the frameworks formulated by Deng Zheng-lai, Wang Hui, Deng Xiao-mang and Qin Hui）, we should neither blindly return to the classic tradition nor uncritically resort to the Western resources in our attempt at rebuilding cultural identity; instead, one mode of a ＂New Civilization＂ might arise in the sense of what Liang Qi-chao regards as cutting across both China and the West.展开更多
文摘The socio-historical analysis of ＂Chinese Modernity＂ and ＂Chinese Cultural Identity＂ within the context of social transformation, by restoring the origin of modernity as a ＂historical event＂ since late Qing, leads to the finding that ＂the Deng Zheng-lai Problem＂ pinpoints the current crisis of cultural identity and the loss of Orthodoxy（daotong） which infects contemporary China. It is necessary to build and shape the mode of cultural identity in response to the pressure of rightness, creating ＂the identity of hybridity＂ by negotiating the classic tradition with the socialist tradition and a partial western tradition. By observing ＂the Deng- Hui frameworks＂ （the frameworks formulated by Deng Zheng-lai, Wang Hui, Deng Xiao-mang and Qin Hui）, we should neither blindly return to the classic tradition nor uncritically resort to the Western resources in our attempt at rebuilding cultural identity; instead, one mode of a ＂New Civilization＂ might arise in the sense of what Liang Qi-chao regards as cutting across both China and the West.
