The Uniqueness of Chinese Civilization in World History

The book has done a meticulous work to answer these questions which often occurred to foreigners as well as modern Chinese themselves at the thought of the old China and its experience in modern times. What is Chinese civilization? How could it exist for several millennia with and spread that far? Is there anything inherent in this civilization resulting in the modern crisis?

From the standpoint of an "outsider" to this civilization, the author incorporates various elements, such as geographic factors, language, thoughts, with the recurrent themes along the two thousand some years and changes throughout, rather than simply following a lineal progression. His historiographical approach, the methodology of eclectic common sense, as he termed it, is a new try in this field and will present a brand new perspective for both readers and researchers in that field.

Author: Guy S. Alitto
Publisher: Springer
Published: 04/30/2023
Pages: 282
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9789819907090

About the Author

One of the best sinologists of modern times, Guy Alitto is an American academic in the History and East Asian Languages and Civilization Departments at the University of Chicago. He is known in China for revitalizing the scholarship on Chinese Confucian scholar Liang Shuming. He is best known in America for his scholarship and for his role as translator for the first official Chinese delegations to the United States after Richard Nixon's first visits to China.