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IACSCW Journal Issue 1 – Winter Volume COMPARATIVE 2013 COMPARATIVE STUDIES of CHINA and THE WEST THE and STUDIES of CHINA COMPARATIVE < I > STUDIES Winter of CHINA and THE WEST ᇗ༎໛ߌйࢨခࣶ ᇗ ༎ ໛ ߌ й ࢨ ခ ࣶ Volume < I >Volume 2013 Tu Weiming Roger T. Ames & Henry Rosemont, Jr. The Ecological Turn in New Confucian Humanism On Translation & Interpretation in Comparative Studies Gu Zhengkun Jean Bessiere A Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Fables of China. Frontier Fables, Fables of Radical Values and Their Origins Exoticism Gao Peiyi John G. Blair & Jerusha McCormack : 4VSÁXSVMIRXIHSVIQTPS]QIRXSVMIRXIH# Comparing China and the West: Remedies for Cultural Amnesia ݛࡅᇗ༎໛ߌйࢨྀ߾࡭ࣂ GENERAL EDITORS Prof. Gu Zhengkun, Prof. & Dean of Institute of World Literature, Peking University Prof. John G. Blair, Prof. Emeritus, University of Geneva KRSHVWREULQJWRJHWKHULQWHUHVWHGVFKRODUVIURPWKH¿HOGVRIOLWHUDWXUHKLVWRU\OLQJXLVWLFV EXECUTIVE EDITORS Prof. Jerusha McCormack, Emeritus, University College Dublin Prof. Ma Shikui, Minzu University of China Prof. Zhang Zheng, Beijing Normal University Comparative Studies of China and the West is an international peer- reviewed journal, published and distributed by T he International Association for Comparative Studies of China and the West (IACSCW; www. chinaandthewest.org ). ISSN 2009-6097(Print) ISSN 2009-6100(Online) ADDRESSES: 79 Waterloo Road, Dublin 4, Ireland. Tel 66 00 592 http://www.chinaandthewest.org Institute of World Literature, School of Foreign Languages, Peking University, 5 Yiheyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100871, China Tel: 86-10-62754610 +WWSVÀSNXHGXFQHQOLVWSKS"FDWLG Copyright© The International Association for Comparative Studies of China and the West (IACSCW) +WWSVÀSNXHGXFQHQOLVWSKS"FDWLG All rights reserved. No reprinting or reproduction is allowed without the per- mission in writing from the IACSCW . Volume COMPARATIVE 2013 < I > STUDIES Winter of CHINA and THE WEST 中西文化比较研究 Published by the International Association for Comparative Studies of China and the West Dublin & Beijing 出版者：国际中西文化比较协会 都柏林·北京 ᇗ༎໛ߌйࢨခࣶ GENERAL EDITORS Prof. Gu Zhengkun, Prof. & Dean of Institute of World Literature, Peking University [email protected] Prof. John G. Blair, Prof. Emeritus, University of Geneva [email protected] EDITORIAL BOARD Prof. Tu Wei-ming, Harvard University/Peking University Prof. Roger T. Ames, University of Hawaii Prof. Jean Bessiere, Paris III Prof. Tang Yijie, Peking University Prof. Yue Daiyun, Peking University Prof. Riccardo Pozzo, Università di Verona Prof. Gao Peiyi, Tsinghua University EXECUTIVE EDITORS Prof. Jerusha McCormack, Emeritus, University College Dublin [email protected] Prof. Ma Shikui, Minzu University of China [email protected] Prof. Zhang Zheng, Beijing Normal University [email protected] Introduction to IACSCW ݛࡅᇗ༎໛ߌйࢨྀ߾࡭ࣂ The International Association for Comparative Studies of China and the West (IACSCW) was founded in 2010. Headquartered both at 79 Waterloo Road, Dublin 4, Ireland, and at the Institute of World Literature, Peking University, its primary goal is to promote comparative studies by helping practitioners to learn from each other. The IACSCW is currently co-presided by Professors Gu Zhengkun (China) and John G. Blair (USA). Professor Tu Weiming (Harvard/Peking University) is IACSCW’s honorary president. The IACSCW Executive Vice President is Dr. Gao Peiyi, distinguished research fellow for Urbanization and Education at Tsinghua University. Its Vice Presidents are Professor Wang Yuechuan from Peking University and Professor Hans-Christian Günther from Freiburg University. The IACSCW has also a list of distinguished scholars as its honorary advisors, including Professor Roger T. Ames, Professor Jean Bessiere (Paris III), Prof. Tang Yijie, Professor Yue Daiyun, and Professor Riccardo Pozzo (Università di Verona), etc. IACSCW provides a forum for those trained in a variety of traditional disciplines. It KRSHVWREULQJWRJHWKHULQWHUHVWHGVFKRODUVIURPWKH¿HOGVRIOLWHUDWXUHKLVWRU\OLQJXLVWLFV translation, philosophy, economics, political science, ecology, art and music, . the list goes on and on. What they share is a sense that comparing China and the West is important not just to their individual careers but to the collective intellectual enterprise of everyone who is working to help these civilizations understand and communicate with each other. That complex and elusive process requires rethinking the past as well as the present, clarifying small issues as well as large ones. In both China and the West intellectuals have a long history as advisors and counselors to those in power. In particular, they create the cultural understandings that underpin all serious attempts at dialogue across civilizational lines. Right now these matters have become a matter of great importance because the global response to the impending ecological crisis will be decided primarily in and by China and the West. Acting in concert, they have the potential to assure a viable future for humankind. Acting separately in pursuit of “business as usual,” they would doom all hopes for a reasonable life for everyone on earth. The responsibility is large; IACSCW will take steps in the positive direction. ADDRESSES: +WWSVÀSNXHGXFQHQOLVWSKS"FDWLG 79 Waterloo Road, Dublin 4, Ireland. Tel 66 00 592 http://www.chinaandthewest.org Institute of World Literature, School of Foreign Languages, Peking University, 5 Yiheyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100871, China Tel: 86-10-62754610 +WWSVÀSNXHGXFQHQOLVWSKS"FDWLG COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF CHINA AND THE WEST ᇗ༎໛ߌйࢨခࣶ Volume 1 Winter 2013 Contents Confucianism and the World Tu Wei-ming The Ecological Turn in New Confucian Humanism: Implications for China and the World 001 Tang Yijie Confucianism & Constructive Postmodernism 010 Chinese and Western Values Gu Zhengkun A Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Values and Their Origins: Family – Nation – World 016 Culture and Translation Roger T. Ames & Henry Rosemont, Jr. On Translation & Interpretation in Comparative Studies--- With Special Reference to Classical Chinese 025 Culture and Identity John G. Blair & Jerusha McCormack Comparing China and the West: Remedies for Cultural Amnesia 033 Wang Yuechuan Building up Cultural Strategy of China as a Great Power through Cultural Innovation 040 Society and Economics Gao Peiyi Profit-oriented or Employment-oriented? A New Topic for the Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Economic Cultures 049 Frank Jacob Social Organization, Secrecy, and Rebellion – Secret Societies in China and Ireland 053 Comparative Literature Jean Bessiere Fables of China. Frontier Fables, Fables of Radical Exoticism: Segalen, Michaux, Butor 058 King-Kok Cheung Two Forms of Solitude: Tao Qian’s Reclusive Ideal and Emerson’s Transcendentalist Vision 062 Li Yongyi Fictions of Nature in Wallace Stevens and Wang Wei 075 Recent Publications in China-West Comparative Studies 015; 061 Tu Weiming The Ecological Turn in New Confucian Humanism The Ecological Turn in New Confucian Humanism: Implications for China and the World By Tu Wei-ming Harvard University/Peking University Today virtually all axial-age civilizations are going thinkers articulated this idea of unity in a distinctive through their own distinctive forms of transformation in way. response to the multiple challenges of modernity.1 One of the most crucial questions they face is what wisdom Qian Mu (1895-1990) of Taiwan characterized the they can offer to reorient the human developmental unity as a mutuality between the human heart-mind and trajectory of the modern world in light of the growing the Way of Heaven.3 Tang Junyi (1909-1978) of Hong environmental crisis. Kong emphasized “immanent transcendence”: we can apprehend the Mandate of Heaven by understanding China and the Confucian tradition face an our heart-and-mind; thus, the transcendence of especially significant challenge given the size of Heaven is immanent in the communal and critical self- China’s population and the scale of her current efforts consciousness of human beings as a whole.4 Similarly, at modernization. A radical rethinking of Confucian Feng Youlan (1895-1990) of Beijing rejected his humanism began in the late nineteenth and early previous commitment to the Marxist notion of struggle twentieth centuries, when China was engulfed in an and stressed the value of harmony not only in the human unprecedented radical social disintegration as the result world, but also in the relationship between humans and of foreign invasion and domestic dissension. In the nature.5 Since all three thinkers articulated their final late twentieth century, this reformulation continued positions toward the end of their lives, the unity of in the “New Confucian movement” led by concerned Heaven, Earth, and Humanity sums up the wisdom of intellectuals, some of whom left mainland China these elders in the Sinic world. I would like to suggest for Taiwan and Hong Kong when communism was that this New Confucian idea of cosmic unity marks an established as the ruling ideology in the People’s ecological turn of profound importance for China and Republic in 1949. the world. In the last twenty-five years, three leading New An Ecological Turn Confucian thinkers in Taiwan, mainland China, and Hong Kong independently concluded that the most Qian Mu called this new realization a major significant contribution the Confucian tradition can offer breakthrough in his thinking. When his wife and students the global community is the idea of the “unity of Heaven raised doubts
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