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The present chapter argues that globalization has made tremendous impact on China in an overall way, but it has also provided Chinese people with precious opportunities to promote its culture and thought in the world. International academic community may well wonder that since China is such an old country with a long history and splendid cultural heritage, and the Chinese revolution has achieved huge victory led by the Communist Party and guided by Marxism and Maoism, China should contribute a great deal to the world. In this chapter it is argued that the international academic community has recognized China’s contribution to global economy and politics, but not its potential contribution in culture and thought. The author argues that Chinese culture and thought will contribute more to the world than expected, especially in the renewed Confucianism and the “Sinicized” Marxism, which finds particular embodiment in the “Belt and Road” initiative and “Building up the Community of Shared Interests for Mankind” by Xi Jinping.
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One of the typical examples for contemporary new Confucianism to be incorporated into the Communist ideology is the fact: Xi Jiping has just published an article entitled “Tuidong woguo shengtai wenming jianshe maishang xin taijie”(Promoting the construction of ecological civilization in China)in the journal Qiushi (Seeking Truth), organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, No. 3, 2019. http://politics.people.com.cn/n1/2019/0201/c1024-30604177.html.
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As far as the relations between cosmopolitanism and China, cf. Ning Wang ed., Cosmopolitanism and China, a special issue in Telos, 180 (2017).
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Humanism could be translated into Chinese in three versions: rendao zhuyi (caring for, respecting, and focusing on the world view of advocating the equality of personality and mutual respect), renwen zhuyi (concern for the human personality, emphasizing the preservation of human dignity), and renben zhuyi (recognizing the value and dignity of the human being as the measure of all things and emphasizing human value and interest), each version of which emphasizes one aspect of humanism in the Western sense. In the present chapter, I just use its second version: renwen zhuyi which is closest to humanism in the Western sense.
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Wang, N. (2020). (Re)Constructing Neo-Confucianism in a “Glocalized” Context. In: Rossi, I. (eds) Challenges of Globalization and Prospects for an Inter-civilizational World Order. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44058-9_53
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