Thursday, April 24, 2008

Chinese people of the West completely shattered the illusion

by:

Head of the Department of Beijing University

A German Deutsche Welle


DW: You also mentioned in his speech of the Chinese traditional culture with the European Enlightenment movement between the basic value of some similarities, can you talk about? Specific »


Liao Yu-Huang: For instance, we Chinese society is an open society, Chinese people have a deep-rooted concept of equality. We have no hierarchy. I talked about our imperial examination system, in the past a farmer's child, if he is smart, he could become the emperor's son-in-law. This kind of thing in Europe is the largest in a fairy tale. For instance we Chinese people do not believe God. China has no sense of Western religion. So we have been very tolerant religion. Chinese history has never been because of religion, faith and because of the persecution of the ethnic groups which happen.


DW: Do you think the experience of the Cultural Revolution and other breaches of traditional Chinese culture, the political movement, the Chinese intellectuals today again become a Confucius followers? »


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