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The author of this passage has certainly put his fingers on one of the weakest spots of modern China although he has misunderstood what was intended to mean by “modern cultural conditions,” which the present writer happened to use in a previous article. The misunderstanding will appear evident to the reader after an acquaintance with the following paragraphs.
The company of such a person cannot be wearisome to the foreigner or meaningless to the Chinese (or isn’t it?), though it may be both to those who think that China’s salvation is not to be found in a wholesale transplantation of everything that is identified with “modern cultural conditions.”
—From a letter to the Editor by Tourist
(Originally published in The China Critic, Vol. I, No. 13, August 23, 1928, by the name of: Quentin Pan)
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Pan, G. (2015). The Problem of the Cultural Hybrid. In: Socio-biological Implications of Confucianism. China Academic Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44575-4_7
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