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Conference Paper: The West Does not Exist in the West: Chinese Construed West and Its Impact on Chinese-Western Relations in Higher Education
Title | The West Does not Exist in the West: Chinese Construed West and Its Impact on Chinese-Western Relations in Higher Education |
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Authors | |
Issue Date | 2014 |
Publisher | The Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong (CESHK). |
Citation | The Annual Conference of the Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong (CESHK), Hong Kong, China, 28 February-1 March 2014. In the Conference Program of the Annual Conference of the Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong (CESHK), 2014, p. 74-75, abstract no. PS1.1 How to Cite? |
Abstract | The way we approach and understand an idea is cultural-bound. This is especially true in
intercultural communication. Ever since China’s door was burst open by Western powers in the late
Qing dynasty, China has been struggling to manage her relations with the West with great difficulty.
A fundamental reason for such difficulty is that the relationship, although touching upon various
social dimensions such as trade and education, is essentially civilizational. Due to the strikingly
different modes of thinking, neither side has found it to be easy to manage the relationship. With an
epistemology of all-under-heaven, the West does not exist in the West for Chinese thinkers. Rather,
the West is something either at the periphery or at the centre. Unlike their Western counterparts who
rely on opposing the concrete, historical, yet backward “Other” to claim to be universal, the Chinese
focus on self-rectification to strive to move closer to the centre. Acknowledging their peripheral
position during modern times while the West at the centre, the Chinese practice self-rectification to
simulate the West. The West is therefore not geographically Western, but at the centre of the Chinese
selfhood. No matter Western or Eastern, Chinese or foreign, there have only been two positions:
centre and periphery, instead of West or East. Such mind-set has had profound impact on how the Chinese perceive Australia. This paper discusses the imagined West in contemporary China. It
interrogates some of China’s intellectual discourses on West to provide a perspective from within
China and examines its impact on Chinese international relations with the Western world in higher
education. |
Description | Conference Theme: Policy and Educational Development in a Global Context Paper Presentation: Paper 5 |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/201396 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Yang, R | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-08-21T07:26:06Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-08-21T07:26:06Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | The Annual Conference of the Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong (CESHK), Hong Kong, China, 28 February-1 March 2014. In the Conference Program of the Annual Conference of the Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong (CESHK), 2014, p. 74-75, abstract no. PS1.1 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/201396 | - |
dc.description | Conference Theme: Policy and Educational Development in a Global Context | - |
dc.description | Paper Presentation: Paper 5 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The way we approach and understand an idea is cultural-bound. This is especially true in intercultural communication. Ever since China’s door was burst open by Western powers in the late Qing dynasty, China has been struggling to manage her relations with the West with great difficulty. A fundamental reason for such difficulty is that the relationship, although touching upon various social dimensions such as trade and education, is essentially civilizational. Due to the strikingly different modes of thinking, neither side has found it to be easy to manage the relationship. With an epistemology of all-under-heaven, the West does not exist in the West for Chinese thinkers. Rather, the West is something either at the periphery or at the centre. Unlike their Western counterparts who rely on opposing the concrete, historical, yet backward “Other” to claim to be universal, the Chinese focus on self-rectification to strive to move closer to the centre. Acknowledging their peripheral position during modern times while the West at the centre, the Chinese practice self-rectification to simulate the West. The West is therefore not geographically Western, but at the centre of the Chinese selfhood. No matter Western or Eastern, Chinese or foreign, there have only been two positions: centre and periphery, instead of West or East. Such mind-set has had profound impact on how the Chinese perceive Australia. This paper discusses the imagined West in contemporary China. It interrogates some of China’s intellectual discourses on West to provide a perspective from within China and examines its impact on Chinese international relations with the Western world in higher education. | - |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | The Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong (CESHK). | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Annual Conference of the Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong (CESHK) | en_US |
dc.title | The West Does not Exist in the West: Chinese Construed West and Its Impact on Chinese-Western Relations in Higher Education | en_US |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Yang, R: yangrui@hkucc.hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Yang, R=rp00980 | en_US |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 234045 | en_US |
dc.identifier.spage | 74, abstract no. PS1.1 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 75, abstract no. PS1.1 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Hong Kong | en_US |