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When China Rules the WorldPye, The Spirit of Chinese Politics, pp. 94- 5. Given that calligraphy, the drawing and reproducing of characters, forms the basis of Chinese art, it is unsurprising that it is of a quite different content and style to Western art. Which, one might ask, is the better system? Howard Gardner, the American educationalist, argues that both have their strengths. The point that needs stressing here, though, is the fundamental difference between the two and their deep historical and cultural roots; in the light of this, we should not expect to witness any serious pattern of convergence. Gardner argues: вЂIt [is] disastrous to inject — unexamined — our notions of education, progress, technology into alien cultural contexts: it [is] far more timely to understand these alternative conceptions on their own terms, to learn from them if possible, and for the most part to respect (rather than to tamper with) their assumptions and their procedures.’ Gardner, To Open Minds, p.118. [602] Interview with Huang Ping, Beijing, 10 December 2005; Huang Ping, вЂвЂњBei jing Consensus”, or “Chinese Experiences”, or What?’, p. 7. [603] Wang Gungwu, The Chineseness of China , p. 2. [604] Diana Lary, вЂRegions and Nation: The Present Situation in China in Historical Context’, Pacific Affairs, 70: 2 (Summer 1997), p. 182. [605] Tu Wei-ming, The Living Tree, p. 4. [606] Also, Shi Anbin, вЂMediating Chinese-ness: Identity Politics and Media Culture in Contemporary China’, in Anthony Reid and Zheng Yangwen, eds, Negotiating Asymmetry: China’s Place in Asia (Singapore: NUS Press, 2009), p. 13. [607] Lucian W ...» |
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