Cultural Confidence of Chinese People: Reflection on The Spirit of the Chinese People

Xue JIANG, Yuchen TIAN

Abstract


The Spirit of the Chinese People was written in 1915, from historical view, China was undergoing great social changes in all aspects at that time. The book written by Ku Hung-Ming is considered to be the first work in modern China to introduce Chinese people to the westerners. He shows deep love, passion and pride of Chinese culture in this book, intending to change the prejudice towards Chinese people of the westerners. Cultural confidence of Ku Hung-Ming can also be sensed greatly in his great work, which is of great value nowadays. This paper mainly demonstrates cultural confidence of Chinese people conveyed in this book by Ku Hung-Ming, some personal reflections are also discussed in this paper to show the author’s understanding of Chinese cultural confidence.


Keywords


Cultural confidence; Chinese people; Traditional culture

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/n

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