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“India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.”

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On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in…

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It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen…

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Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.

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Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

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In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the…

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The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here and now…

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The most outstanding characteristic of Eastern civilization is to know contentment, whereas that of Western civilization is not to know contentment. Contented Easterners are…

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After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.

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And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

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Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.

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But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.

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In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding.

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