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The era that we are experiencing is truly an era transforming from “national history” to “world history”, during which such concepts as “globalization”, “liberalism”, “world citizen”, etc., has become accepted by the mainstream discourse penetrating politics, economy, culture as well as people’s daily life. Any research on “national spirit”, in the context advocating openness and freedom, would unavoidably appear to be attempts to enclose oneself or to move against the trend of times. What needs to be taken note of, however, is the question that when globalization of world economy and world cultures may have brought material benefits and cultural innovations to all nation states, it may also bring huge impacts on and great challenges to the local national cultures, making the question true to all nations of the world: how to preserve their own great cultural traditions when adapting themselves to the mainstream culture of modern society.
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Ouyang, K. (2017). National Spirit and Spiritual Home. In: The Chinese National Spirit. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3915-7_2
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