This paper tackles the issue of education as the process of person-making and attempts to redefine the ideal and unique Chinese person-the Chinese soul-based on a civilizational dialogue and synthesis that would trans...This paper tackles the issue of education as the process of person-making and attempts to redefine the ideal and unique Chinese person-the Chinese soul-based on a civilizational dialogue and synthesis that would transform modern education and enable education to play a central role in“redeeming modernity”and revitalizing Chinese civilization.The paper briefly analyzes the historical efforts,and failures,to reform the Chinese soul and argues that the 150-year effort to revitalize Chinese culture and transform the Chinese people by way of adopting certain aspects of Western civilization has mostly failed because a sufficiently coherent and meaningful synthesis of the two civilizations was lacking.展开更多
文摘This paper tackles the issue of education as the process of person-making and attempts to redefine the ideal and unique Chinese person-the Chinese soul-based on a civilizational dialogue and synthesis that would transform modern education and enable education to play a central role in“redeeming modernity”and revitalizing Chinese civilization.The paper briefly analyzes the historical efforts,and failures,to reform the Chinese soul and argues that the 150-year effort to revitalize Chinese culture and transform the Chinese people by way of adopting certain aspects of Western civilization has mostly failed because a sufficiently coherent and meaningful synthesis of the two civilizations was lacking.
