Key Concepts in Chinese Thought and Culture

Freeing the Mind from Bias

Literally, this term means to reverse the state of one being hung upside down. It originated from Zhuangzi. The author Zhuangzi (369?-286 BC) found that people tend to look at other people or things from their own positions, and they thus develop biased views about others and the world. Their mind is consequently in a state of tension. To Zhuangzi,…

Believe in One’s Self

Have trust in one’s self so that one strongly believes in the correctness and validity of one’s thoughts and actions. One who has such a belief will give up neither one’s conviction nor one’s goals. He will neither waver nor submit to others. A strong sense of personal integrity underlies this sense of self-belief, which in turn wins the trust o…

The Alternation of Yin and Yang Constitutes the Way.

This saying comes from The Book of Changes. “The alternation of yin and yang”indicates the existence of both yin and yang, a pair of opposites that lie in all things between heaven and earth, including human affairs. Their alternation and interaction lead to the changes of things. Such changes so caused are called the Way. Furthermore, the sixty-f…

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: The purposes of the Project are to select the concepts in Chinese culture and thought that reflect the characteristics of the country's traditional culture and the Chinese people's way of thinking, and that embody the core values of China.
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