The East is a Promotion
by
Thorsten Pattberg
"The East is a
career," reads the quote by Benjamin Disraeli in the preamble of Edward
Said's 1978 masterpiece ' Orientalism ' . Since Deng
Xiaoping's opening-up policy, millions of European entrepreneurs, scholars and adventurers
have swarmed eastward and flocked into
A
Lofty pragmatism
Few people realize the great impact
of Chinese thought in today's
Although Germany is
conservative about its deep affection for the Far East (the ruling Christian
Democratic Union under Chancellor Angela Merkel still doesn't officially
recognize "multiculturalism"), it will adapt to China eventually, and
I'm not just referring to its 28,000 Chinese students, the impact of the
Confucius Institutes in all of Germany's cultural centers, and Germany's
economic dependency on China.
No, I base my argument about
the Confucian revolution on four recent developments in
In European societies, we witness
an ongoing secularization, far more evolved than that in the very radical and
religious
The
Love for learning
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