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In the twenty-first century, mankind faces a tremendous challenge and that is the fact that unprecedentedly monstrous and cruel relationships have arisen between nature, mankind, the individual, the group, and nations. The real essence of these cruel relationships is the comprehensive “materialization” of both the material and spiritual lives. Materialism has increasingly displaced idealism, and money’s entrapment of human nature has increasingly replaced the early capitalist quest for the liberation of human nature. What originally was a social relationship between individuals has been transformed into a “materialist” relationship between people.
Address on the Occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the Establishment of Peking University’s Institute of Comparative Literature
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Yue, D. (2016). Looking into the Future. In: China and the West at the Crossroads. China Academic Library. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1116-0_41
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