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China : From Cartier to Confucius
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Surging economic strength, expanding military capabilities, and an undeniable impact on the existing global order-these make up the dramatic narrative of 21st-century China. Meanwhile, a small grou...
Surging economic strength, expanding military capabilities, and an undeniable impact on the existing global order-these make up the dramatic narrative of 21st-century China. Meanwhile, a small group of philosophy students at Shanghai's prestigious Fudan University convenes each Friday night to study texts by Confucius and other classical philosophers. These young scholars have embraced-or at least do not disavow-China's consumerist-driven ascendancy, but they are insecure about the lack of principles to guide it. In the process of rediscovering values that were buried during the Cultural Revolution, a core question emerges: Will Confucianism regain more than a tentative foothold amid the fervor of state capitalism? Will the ruling class eventually welcome the ancient ideas and their implications for neoconservatism and nationalism?
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- Creator
- NPO/Netherlands Public Broadcast
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2013], c2012
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (45 min.) : sd., col
- digital
- data file
- OCLC
- ocn861414452
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on July 17, 2013.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Portions with English subtitles.
- Change in China (1:23) -- Confucius's Elitism (1:35) -- Confucius on Justice (1:35) -- Change in Chinese Thinking (1:51) -- Distinctive Student Group (1:30) -- Chinese Spiritual Void (1:40) -- Reason for Studying Past Thought (1:59) -- Confucius's Descendants (2:06) -- Marxism and Confucianism (2:27) -- Monument to Confucius (1:09) -- Confucius's Place in Today's China (2:06) -- Chinese Left and Right (1:27) -- Studying Classics (1:49) -- Theory and Practice (1:04) -- Ambivalence about Traditional Culture (2:01) -- Difficulty of Individualism in China (3:23) -- Visiting Parents (1:31) -- Economic Modernization (3:07) -- Filial Piety Versus Natural Rights (1:39) -- Leaving Farm Life (1:47) -- Chinese and Western Thought on Society (1:35) -- Thrasymachus, Confucius and Socrates (3:27) -- Confucian Ritual (1:38) -- Philosophy and Life (2:39) -- Credits: China: From Cartier to Confucius (0:41)