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This chapter firstly addresses the spiritual core of Chinese traditional culture and Chinese contemporary vision of “a community of a shared future for mankind”. Then, we discuss the dialogue relationship between China and the world in the past, present, and future. After that, we explain the relationships between China’s modern education and the educational thoughts of other countries, and explain the development of modern and contemporary Chinese education under the influence of multiple cultures and bodies of educational thought. Finally, we explicate the academic pursuits and impact of two influential educational schools of thought in China and the United States in the transformation of modern society. These topics explain and situate the main theme of this book—the sister school project viewed from a Chinese perspective—in the world and its history.

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    A community of a shared future for mankind also means a community of common destiny. The concept first appeared in a report delivered by former Party General Secretary Hu Jintao to the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in November 2012. In the report, Hu emphasized that “mankind has only one earth to live on, and countries have only one world to share” and called for the building of a harmonious world of enduring peace and common prosperity by raising awareness about human beings sharing a community of common destiny. Hu envisioned a new type of equitable and balanced global development partnership that would stick together in times of difficulty, both sharing rights and shouldering obligations, and boosting the common interests of mankind. President Xi Jinping first proposed the concept in an international arena at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in March 2013, and raised it again in a speech to the World Economic Forum at Davos in January 2017, which “won him high credits at home and abroad”.

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    The concept of heaven is a fundamental view regarding the origin of the world, debated around different understandings of heaven and the relationship between heaven and man.

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    Humanity here refers to the human reason, ethical relations in society, respect for human rights, care for human life, and care about the moral concept of human nature.

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    Notes on the Chapters and Sentences from the Four Books. Sishu Zhangju Jizhu四书章句集注.

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    This is different from the opinion of some contemporary Chinese scholars that the development of educational thought in the first half of the twentieth century in China was fractured. See Ye Lan (2004).

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    From 2001 to 2010, there were several papers on this topic. Hou Huaiyin. Basic Course of Chinese Pedagogy Development in the First Half of the Twentieth Century [J].] Journal of Shanxi University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition), 2001 (6): 1–6; Yi, Yang Changyong. Discussion on the Creation of Chinese Pedagogy School [J].] Educational Research, 2003 (4): 37–42; Ye Lan. A Review of the Century Question of Development of Chinese Pedagogy [J].] Educational Research, 2004 (7): 3–17; Li Hing Chau. Analysis on the Destiny of Chinese Pedagogy in the Context of Globalization [J].] Contemporary Educational Sciences, 2004a (18): 3–5; Li Zhengtao. Discussion on the Significance and Basic Path of the Creation of Chinese Pedagogy School [J].] Educational Research, 2004b (1): 6–8; Jing Guoping. On School Consciousness and Practical Direction of Chinese Pedagogy—From “Subject Standpoint” to “School Standpoint” [J].] Higher Education Studies, 2006 (1): 76–81; Lu Quyuan, Tian Hanzu, Tu Guanghui. On the Construction of Chinese Pedagogy—Also On the Lack of Chinese Pedagogy in the twentieth Century [J].] Journal of Educational Science, Hunan Normal University, 2007 (3): 11–15; Tian Hanzu, Lu Quyuan, Xie ZhiGuohua. On Chinese Pedagogy Towards the World [J] Journal of Educational Science, Hunan Normal University, 2010 (001): 34–37, 54.

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Bu, Y. (2021). Friends from Afar. In: Bu, Y. (eds) Narrative Inquiry into Reciprocal Learning Between Canada-China Sister Schools. Intercultural Reciprocal Learning in Chinese and Western Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61085-2_2

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