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    National Security Governance Strategy in the New Era:Its System,Idea and Path
    Hua-fu JIANG, Jun LIU
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2022, 54 (6): 105-111.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2022.06.012
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    National security governance is related to the long-term governance of the Party, the long-term stability of the country, and people’s life and work in peace and contentment. The strategic system of national security governance in the new era is a set of systematic institutional arrangements for maintaining and shaping national security, and it is the specific application of the national governance system in the field of national security. The strategic concept of national security governance in the new era is mainly reflected in the trinity of XI Jin-ping’s overall national security concept, with the purpose of people’s security, political security as the foundation, and national interests as the criterion. As for the practice path, we should adhere to safe development, promote the dynamic balance between high-quality development and high-level security, adhere to overall warfare, and coordinate traditional and non-traditional security, stick to the path of peaceful development, and promote the coordination of our own security and common security. To exactly grasp the strategy of national security governance system, follow the strategic path of national security governance system and promote national security governance in a comprehensive way is significant for us to realize the goal of the second century and achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

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    A New Perspective to Observe the “Occurrence of the Cold War”:Before the Publication of Economic Vortex:A New Prospective to Observe the Cold War
    Zhi-hua SHEN
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2023, 55 (1): 53-60.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2023.01.005
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    The origin and occurrence of the Cold War, especially the role of the Soviet Union, has always been a heated topic in the academic circle. If observing from the new perspective of economy, especially from the notion of economy and economic strategies of the Soviet Union as well as economic relationships between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, we will find a different logic chain, develop a different historical narrative and eventually form a new framework to explain how the relationships between the U.S. and the Soviet Union changed and how the Cold War pattern formed and developed. The mission of historical research is to find out how the Cold War happened, what were the motivations of the U.S. and the Soviet Union and what caused such results. In fact, there were opportunities and possibilities to reverse the trend at each stage, but eventually the U.S. and the Soviet Union sank into the abyss of the Cold War.

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    “Chinese Root”:A New Exotic Drug in the Eyes of European Physicians during the Renaissance Period
    Xi GAO
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2023, 55 (1): 22-32.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2023.01.002
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    The “Chinese root”, namely, the Chinese herbal “Glabrous Greenbrier Rhizome”, was brought to Europe by Portuguese merchants in the early 16th century and was regarded as the “holy wood” by European physicians. Exploring why the writer of Radicis Chynae chose the “Chinese root” to illustrate his epochal and subversive scientific ideas, this paper analyses the impact of the Western transmission of traditional Chinese medicine since the 16th century on the shift in scientific thinking in the Renaissance. It also attempts to explore, from the perspective of knowledge power and academic authority, how the changes in medical concepts and methodology were influenced by hidden political forces, such as imperial will and academic authority, during the transition of European medicine from classical to modern times when science was first emerging, and how the construction of methodology was accomplished through academic language. The role and influence of the “Chinese root” will be examined in such a context.

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    In Pursuit of Chinese Road to Modernization and Human Civilization in a New Form:China’s Exploration since Modern Times
    Wei-ping CHEN
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2022, 54 (6): 17-23.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2022.06.003
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    Taking “the creation of human civilization in a new form” as “the essential requirement of Chinese modernization” in the report of the 20th National Congress of the CPC, President XI Jin-ping reveals their intrinsic link. This is the achievement of historical accumulation of exploring China’s road to modernization and human civilization in a new form since modern times. The historical logic of this exploration since modern times in China is clear. From Westernizationists to reformists and then to Revolutionaries, it shows the starting point and twists of the exploration of modernization and civilization in a new form. In other words, Chinese people began to turn to socialism in order to make China catch up with other nations in the process of learning the modernization of Western capitalism. After the May 4th Movement, CHEN Du-xiu, LI Da-zhao and MAO Ze-dong all stated that China had to realize modernization and build civilization in a new form in the framework of socialism. It was in the first leap of the sinicization of Marxism that the exploration of Chinese modernization and human civilization in a new form has been closely and substantially related to the leadership of the CPC, its historical mission, the prospect of socialism and its firm stance of the masses of people. After the foundation of PRC, the exploration of socialist modernization and civilization in a new form experienced turns and twists and eventually generated a new leap of the sinicization of Marxism in the “second combination of Marxism and China’s condition” during the two periods divided by reform and opening-up. It has integrated Chinese modernization, socialism with Chinese characteristics and human civilization in a new form into a whole.

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    On Two Early English Versions of Huang Di Nei Jing
    Yu YANG
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2023, 55 (1): 46-52.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2023.01.004
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    Huang Di Nei Jing (Yellow Emperor’s Internal Classic) is the fundamental classic of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), from which the Western academic circle begins to understand the theory of TCM. Prioritized as the primary TCM work by Western sinologists, Huang Di Nei Jing had been translated into Latin, French, German and other languages before the 20th century. This paper investigates its two early English translations that have scarcely been emphasized or even noticed. Through figuring out the brief history of these two translations, examining the misunderstandings especially on terms by comparing them with the source text, and analyzing what motivated the translators to translate it and how they had first established their knowledge on TCM, this paper explores the special aspects during the transmission of TCM knowledge in the West.

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    The Reconstruction of Confucius’ Ideal of “You Jiao Wu Lei” and Its Modern Relevance
    Cheng HONG
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2023, 55 (2): 50-60.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2023.02.004
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    This article aims to reconstruct Confucius’ ideal of “education without discrimination” (youjiao wulei) from the perspectives of intellectual history and political philosophy to demonstrate its continued theoretical and practical significance in modern pluralistic societies. “Education without discrimination” is not a statement of fact about the educated, but rather a value judgment about the educators; it requires teachers to treat students with different individual backgrounds equally. This article argues that “education without discrimination” is a type of civic moral education, which belongs to neither elite nor popular education. It seeks to cultivate exemplary persons (Junzi), rather than influence common people to form moral customs. It is reasonable to interpret “Junzi” and “Junzi’s virtue” as “good citizens” and “civic morals” in the vision of intellectual history and political philosophy. This reasonability shows the possible significance and value of Confucius’ ideal of “education without discrimination” at the level of civil moral education in modern society.

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    The Impact of Digital Service Trade Barriers on Quality Upgrading of Manufacturing Exports
    Shi-teng XU, Ling JIN, Ling-yu CAI, Chun-juan QIU
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2022, 54 (6): 166-174.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2022.06.018
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    It hasn’t been systematically examined whether and how digital service trade barriers have an impact on the quality upgrade of China’s manufacturing exports. Based on the technical relationship between the intermediate input of upstream digital services and the output of downstream manufacturing, this paper calculates the country-manufacturing industry-level digital service trade restriction index, and then makes an empirical analysis of the above issues. The results show that the increase of digital service trade barriers has a significant inhibitory effect on the quality upgrade of China’s manufacturing exports, and the negative effects of increased restrictive measures in the fields of facilities and connections, payment systems are particularly significant. The impact of digital service trade barriers is heterogeneous across countries and industries, that is, there is an inhibitory effect mainly on the quality of exports of developed countries on the one hand, and capital-intensive and labor-intensive manufacturing exports on the other. Further analysis shows that the increase in FDI and R&D can weaken the negative impact of digital service trade barriers on the quality upgrade of China’s manufacturing exports. At the same time, the higher the quality of China's manufacturing exports, the stronger the negative effect of digital service trade barriers. Therefore, to promote high-quality development of China’s foreign trade, China should make great efforts to reduce global digital service trade barriers, increase the R&D of digital technology in the manufacturing industry, and improve FDI policies related to the digital industry.

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    兵 梅
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2022, 54 (6): 1-2.  
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    Let the “Self” Return:CHEN Yin-que’s “Independent Spirit” from the Academic Perspective
    Zhi-tian LUO
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2022, 54 (6): 57-66.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2022.06.008
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    “Independent spirit and free thought” is CHEN Yin-que’s famous saying. However, it has been misunderstood for a long time, so we need to understand it from the academic perspective. At that time, it wasn’t the unique insight of CHEN, but many scholars shared the same value. The idea involves scholars’ understanding of the relationship between the academics and the “self” and the absence of “humanity” in historical research and the disappearance of the “self” in academic writings. CHEN emphasized many times that “we should keep our mind independent when we do academic work” and highlighted the subjectivity of the “self”. It implies that subjectivity and objectivity are complementary to each other and it is unnecessary to replace the former with the latter, which brought special significance to the academic environment at that time. At least at the level of academic expressions, we need to let the “self” return.

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    “Death”,“Cavity”,“Labyrinth” and “Outside”:On Deleuze’s Acceptance and Creative Transformation of Foucault from the Perspective of Raymond Russell
    Yu-yu WU
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2023, 55 (1): 103-113.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2023.01.010
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    In the 1960s, Foucault had a great interest in literature, especially in Russell. He believed that Russell unfolded the plot by making sentences with similar pronunciations but different meanings. Russell broke the correspondence between words and objects, making the words lose the function of expressing meanings and become a free game. In this way, language is no longer a tool to represent the world, but becomes itself. Then literature will not any more narrate stories or represent things, but become a maze of increasing words. Deleuze followed Foucault’s path, continued to rewrite and formed new metaphors, the “death of the writer” becoming a “desire machine”, words turning devoid as the “repetition of differences”, the idea of “labyrinth” leading to “fold” poetry, and the “outside” space changing into curvy “escape”. Influenced by Foucault, Deleuze believed that Russell was a great replicator, and he included differences to the greatest extent. Deleuze extended his idea of differences and constructed a new labyrinth poetics. Hence, literature develops from the crack of discourses in the way of deviating from itself, bears the mission of resisting the subject and deconstructing reason, and demonstrates its endless revolutionary and pioneering spirit.

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    The “Rivers and Lakes” Originated from the “Land of Peach Blossom”:“Rivers and Lakes” in SU Shi and SU Zhe
    Gang ZHU
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2022, 54 (4): 115-124.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2022.04.012
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    Writings on “rivers and lakes” are integral to classical Chinese literature. In general, “rivers and lakes” refer to the place where frustrated officials were exiled. Nevertheless, poetry written by SU Shi and SU Zhe deliberately constructed “rivers and lakes” into a poetic space abounded with cultural landscape. This was quite typical among poetry in the Song Dynasty. On the one hand, the SU Brothers described “rivers and lakes” as a place where fish and birds inhabited; it was full of mountains and waters, historical sites, as well as commemorations of kinship and friendship; and it was also a poetic place imprinted with lofty noblemen and recluse scholars, folk ethos and local customs, as well as the humanist tradition. On the other hand, their political careers also reminded them that “rivers and lakes” were used by the court to banish criminals, and power networks from the capital also stretched out all over this space, so that “rivers and lakes” were not a safe haven at all. This paradoxical understanding was coherent with Song political environments and the development of transportation, communication, and commodity economy. It is worth mentioning that SU Shi proposed a poetic idea about the interconnection between “rivers and lakes” and “the land of peach blossom spring” by emphasizing that the water of “rivers and lakes” originated from “the land of peach blossom”. From “the land of peach blossom” to “rivers and lakes” extended the spirit of humanism, which was in the opposite direction of power expansion.

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    On the Health-related Quality of Life and Classified Social Security System of Older Adults Living Alone in Urban Community
    Jian-yun WANG, Ren-yao ZHONG
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2022, 54 (4): 164-174.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2022.04.017
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    The group of older adults living alone has become larger, more complex, and more heterogeneity, with the change of family structure, the aging of parents with only child, the increase of migration frequency and spatial distance, and the change of values. We use the data of “Survey on Older Adults Aged 70 and Above Living Alone in Urban China” to analyze the health-related quality of life among older adults living alone. We find that older adults with different family types have significant differences in health-related quality of life, such as body health, mental health, and social adaptation. One with children and the spouse has the worst quality of body health; one with children but without spouse has the worst quality of mental health; the one without children and spouse has the worst quality of social adjustment. It is suggested to establish and improve the information database of the older adults living alone in the community, and provide targeted care services and classified security in the community. The government should give older adults living alone with children and spouses some help to improve the quality of body health, such as family support program, neighborhood visits and emergency services. The government should give older adults living alone with children but without spouses some help to improve the quality of mental health, such as providing spiritual comfort, “pairing” help and psychological counsel services. The government should give older adults living alone without children and spouses some help to improve the quality of social adaptation, such as constructing harmonious neighborhoods, encouraging social participation and improving life satisfaction.

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    From Being Crazily Drunk to Lying Drunk:The Evolution of Chinese Wine Spirit
    Hua-nan GONG
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2022, 54 (4): 11-21.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2022.04.002
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    The phenomenon of drunkenness exists in various civilizations, and is understood, regulated and shaped by them. In China, the long history of civilization endows drunkenness with various spiritual connotations. With the continuous evolution of the intellectual trend of the times, the concept of drunkenness was formed in an intermittent manner. From the Shang and Zhou Dynasties to the Han Dynasty, being crazily drunk was a normal state, and drunkenness fell down from sacredness to pure desire and hobby. After the Han Dynasty, lying drunk became the mainstream. With the establishment of taste thought in China, drinking has become the thinking method for the drinkers, and lying drunk has become their conscious inward spiritual exploration, and the sacredness of drunkenness was restored to a certain extent. Being crazily drunk is aggressive and opposing the world, while lying drunk is a state of doing nothing and being comfortable inside and outside. Those lying drunk refuse to find their stance in the secular society, and consciously approach the quiet and tranquil world of drunkenness, which shows that their pursuit transcends the worldly life. In this process, the body is disciplined and becomes weak and feeble, so that it no longer stands or acts, and the mind is free of thinking, full of leisure and joy. The evolution towards lying drunk reveals the Chinese people’s introverted and inward-turned cultural psychology, which suppresses the impact of wine, but also makes it difficult for the drunk to be strong and upright.

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    Collaborative Obstacles and Development Paths of Digital Governance in Megacities:A Case Study of “Collaborative Governance by a Network” in Shanghai
    Lian-ming XU
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2022, 54 (5): 133-144.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2022.05.013
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    Digital governance model innovation is an important part of promoting digital city strategy. At present, the practice of digital governance is in the ascendant in many cities in China, and Shanghai is one of the benchmark cities. There are some universal and fundamental obstacles in China′s urban digital governance. The obstacles and their solutions are interrelated, resulting in the obstacles unresolved. How to effectively resolve it by “technology-organization-function” collaboration is a very urgent issue. Technology, organization and function are the three elements of urban digital governance. Only the collaborative governance of these three can resolve many stubborn obstacles in digital governance. At present, many collaborative obstacles arise in the “collaborative digitalization” stage of digital transformation, and moving towards the “digital collaboration” stage as soon as possible is a possible development path.

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    WANG Yi’s Annotation on The Songs of Chu and the Political Situation in Emperor An’s Reign
    Xing-lu ZHOU
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2022, 54 (4): 106-114.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2022.04.011
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    WANG Yi’s Annotation on The Songs of Chu not only laid a foundation for the study of The Songs of Chu, but was also significant in the history of literary criticism in the Han Dynasty. During Emperor An’s reign that lasted for around two decades, the political situation was messy and sycophantic. In the court, however, many ministers were brave enough to admonish the emperor severely. The imperial court encouraged political criticism. In such an atmosphere, as a collating officer, WANG Yi developed his thought while collating classic books. Different from the moderation of YANG Xiong and BAN Gu, WANG highly praised QU Yuan’s spirit of satire. The royal family in Nanyang emphasized the responsibility of protecting the country of the Han Dynasty by developing the idea that “the sons of Duke had no righteousness to leave the country” from Chuqiu Fanlu while compiling ritual propriety of the Han Dynasty. This affected WANG to elaborate for the first time on QU Yuan’s idea that people with the same surname of Chu would be not righteous to leave the country.

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    Essence and Desire:Reflecting on Jullien’s Comparison of Chinese and Western Views of the Nude
    Jia-jun WANG
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2023, 55 (2): 80-92.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2023.02.007
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    Jullien believes that Western nude art is supported by the ideas such as essence and ideal in Western philosophy. The Chinese ontology emphasizes change and process, so it is impossible to think that “the nude is the essence”. Jullien excludes nude works such as the pornographic paintings from his examination of nude art, because they show nakedness as a process from shedding to exposing, rather than the nude as a natural state of nudity. However, Agamben, via the discussion of the Christian view of the nude, points out that the nude is always relative to exposure, and there is only the nakedness rather than the nude. This makes Chinese and Western nude art on a more equal comparative plane since the post-structuralist view of the essence behind Agamben’s distinction is in line with ancient Chinese philosophy such as Daoism and also introduces the dimension of desire into the discussion of nude art. At this point, Chinese nude art should also be included in the comparison, not only because of the similarity of the theme, but also because they contain a Chinese view of the body and philosophy as well. Its absence in Jullien also prompts us to further reflect on the issue of cross-cultural comparison.

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    The Explanation about “Wěi Wěi Tuó Tuó” from The Book of Songs:Also on the Composition Principle of “Consecutive Characters and Words”
    Ren-er HUANG, Ren-qing CHI
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2022, 54 (6): 96-104.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2022.06.011
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    The explanations of “Wěi Wěi Tuó Tuó” from the poem “Growing old together with the gentleman” in The Book of Songs have varied from each other sinceMao’s Commentary.How to read “Wěi Wěi Tuó Tuó”? DAI Jun-ren uses traditional “repetition” pronunciation to read “Wěi Wěi Tuó Tuó”. From the angle of Chinese bronze inscriptions and bamboo slips, “Wěi Wěi Tuó Tuó” can be written as “Wěi = Tuó =”, if the characters have the same pronunciations. YU Sheng-wu uses “new evidences” and regards them as “compound words”, so he reads them as “Wěi Tuó Wěi Tuó”. The bamboo slips scholars in Anhui University follow YU. From the view of “consecutive characters and words”, the statement of DAI is right. “Wěi Wěi Tuó Tuó” means the bending and long pattern of mountains and rivers on the “Gown of the Queen”.

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    Unraveling the Mystery of Syntax:The Origin of Subject-Predicate Dichotomy and Component Analysis
    Bao-jia LI
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2022, 54 (6): 76-95.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2022.06.010
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    Plato used a dichotomy to divide a sentence into its name components (ōnoma) and its declarative components (rhēma), Aristotle analyzed a proposition as the combination of a subject (hypokeimenon) and a predicate (katigoria), and Apollonius regarded nouns and verbs as the main parts of a sentence – all of these became the blueprint for the subject-predicate dichotomy in syntax. In the early 5th century, the Roman scholar Martianus proposed the dichotomy of subject (subjectiva) and predicate (declarativa), which influenced French Carolingian scholars in the 9th century. In the second half of the 8th century, the Arab scholar Sibawayhi analyzed a noun sentence into the topic and the description, and a verb sentence into the agent and the action. After that, Speculative Grammar (including Modistae) and Universal Grammar accepted subject-predicate dichotomy, but did not further refine it. Through the examination of more than a dozen works on English grammar (in the 18th and 19th centuries), Lane introduced logical subject-predicate terms into English sentence analysis for the first time (in 1700), while Greene firstly established refined English sentence components analysis (in 1848).

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    The Preliminary Recognition and Imagination of Acupuncture in Europe in the 17th Century:A Case Study of Wilhelmi Ten Rhyne’s “On Acupuncture”
    Shu-jian ZHANG
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2023, 55 (1): 33-45.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2023.01.003
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    In the second half of the 17th century, Wilhelmi Ten Rhyne, a doctor of the Dutch East India Company, once sojourned shortly in Japan. In his Latin book Dissertatio de Arthritide published in 1863, he provided four meridian-point figures and a comprehensive description of acupuncture technique, which were published in an English journal in 1974 under the title “On Acupuncture”. As the first work discussing acupuncture informatively in Europe, this article’s description of acupuncture theory and technique was penetrated with the distinctive knowledge of Rhyne, a scholar acquainted with both traditional and modern European medical knowledge. In the article, he not only cited ancient Greek medical theories to interpret acupuncture, but also invoked the theory of blood circulation at that time to verify the meridian theory. In “On Acupuncture”, which has been influential since then, we can see both the Westerners’ first acquaintance with Eastern acupuncture and European doctors’ imagination of Chinese medicine.

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    Promoting Chinese Culture across the World through Cultural Exchanges and Mutual Learning
    Li-zhi HUANG
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2022, 54 (6): 30-36.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2022.06.005
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    It is pointed out in the report of the 20th National Congress of the CPC that we should make Chinese culture more accessible to the world by deepening cultural exchanges and mutual learning. It means that we must observe the law of cultural exchanges and mutual learning, which is a major trend in the era of globalization. In order to have a lofty image of an advanced civilization, a nation should make its own efforts and let others appraise. The accordance of Chinese modernization and the common value of all mankind is as follows: on the one hand, it has the “common characteristics of the modernization of all nations” in the sense that China has all the technological dimension and ethic dimension shared by all other nations; on the other hand, “common prosperity for everyone”, “the coordination of material progress and cultural and intellectual progress”, “the harmony between human and nature” and “peaceful development” in Chinese modernization are China’s unique technological and ethic solutions based on its own national situations. It demonstrates the original meaning of “a broad mind like the sea embracing all rivers” to handle well the relations with foreign cultures including Western ones. Only by doing well this work can Chinese culture have a power of discourse in global affairs, which matches China’s international status, and show a dependable, gracious and respectable image of China.

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