This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the May 4th Movement, a watershed moment that sparked a cultural and political awakening for China and helped forge a new identity in dialogue with ideas from the West. To ...This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the May 4th Movement, a watershed moment that sparked a cultural and political awakening for China and helped forge a new identity in dialogue with ideas from the West. To a certain extent, the May 4th Movement crystallized a debate which started more than four hundred years before, when Portuguese ships sailed to Asia for commerce, bringing with them a world-view, philosophy, and religion which challenged indigenous traditions. Today we are engaged in exploring new frontiers of philosophy, and in doing so it is worthwhile to reflect on the first encounter and confrontation between Asian and Western philosophies. The five papers presented here are ordered chronologically, covering a century of intellectual debates.展开更多
文摘This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the May 4th Movement, a watershed moment that sparked a cultural and political awakening for China and helped forge a new identity in dialogue with ideas from the West. To a certain extent, the May 4th Movement crystallized a debate which started more than four hundred years before, when Portuguese ships sailed to Asia for commerce, bringing with them a world-view, philosophy, and religion which challenged indigenous traditions. Today we are engaged in exploring new frontiers of philosophy, and in doing so it is worthwhile to reflect on the first encounter and confrontation between Asian and Western philosophies. The five papers presented here are ordered chronologically, covering a century of intellectual debates.
