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Expanding rapidly into the arena of international rankings and partnerships, the Chinese academy—and, most particularly, its humanistic disciplines—is at a crossroads. The market capitalization of the Chinese tertiary sector, including high-profile tie-ups with Western entities and flagship programs from overseas, presents great potential for innovation and collaboration even as the Western humanistic model, including inquiry-based and investigative pedagogies for discovery in the arts and sciences, must itself change and transculturate on Chinese ground.
The goal of our culture is to nurture junzi [君子],
the gentleman scholar or humanist in Western culture. …
The more junzi a society has, the better it becomes.
So, in conclusion, Confucianism must remain the
culture of our country. What do you think?
–letter from Mei Guangdi [梅光迪] to Hu Shi [胡適]
(26 December 1915)
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Christie, S. (2016). International Glow: The Contemporary Reinvention of a Chinese Humanitas . In: Chan, E., O'Sullivan, M. (eds) The Humanities in Contemporary Chinese Contexts. The Humanities in Asia, vol 2. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2267-8_9
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