In this bold and thought-provoking book Erica Fox Brindley examines an issue long assumed to be a primary point of difference between European cultures and their descendants and the intellectual milieu of early China...In this bold and thought-provoking book Erica Fox Brindley examines an issue long assumed to be a primary point of difference between European cultures and their descendants and the intellectual milieu of early China: the role of the individual. In the past, comparative studies of the individual in China have often assumed a basic distinction on this point, or have taken up one definition of the individual and argued that it did not exist in a particular Chinese context.展开更多
文摘In this bold and thought-provoking book Erica Fox Brindley examines an issue long assumed to be a primary point of difference between European cultures and their descendants and the intellectual milieu of early China: the role of the individual. In the past, comparative studies of the individual in China have often assumed a basic distinction on this point, or have taken up one definition of the individual and argued that it did not exist in a particular Chinese context.