Abstract
The Spread of Civilization along the Book Road: WANG Yong’s Dongya wenhua huanliu shijiang
Highlights
Based on the concept of ‘taking the Chinese culture as the origin, the coexistence of civilization as the philosophy, and the comparative studies as the method’, the book, Dongya wenhua huanliu shijiang 東亞文化環流十講 [Ten Lectures on East Asian Cultural Circulation], adopts an original perspective, dotted with abundant historical materials, narrating the trails of the origin, inheritance, dissemination, variation, fusion, and regeneration of east Asian culture
This book gives a broad view of East Asian countries and forms the cultural transmission routes of China, the Joseon peninsula and the Japanese islands
The most important point mentioned by WANG Yong 王勇 in Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies, 3.2 (2020): 248–257
Summary
The many theoretical innovations in this book makes readers interested in the discussion of ‘cultural territory’. A ‘cultural territory’ forms a centre in the region where its influence extends, but there is no clear boundary This formation breaks through the stereotype of the study by nation, and discusses the multi-level radiations of the Chinese culture on the surrounding regions in terms of material civilization, technological civilization, and spiritual civilization originating from Chinese-constructed cultural homogeneity with interactions among the elements of ‘origin’, ‘centre’, and ‘periphery’. It is especially impressive when the book indicates that ‘the origin of the culture is innate, whereas the centre of culture takes shape by environment’ during a discussion about ‘the competition among traditional East Asian cultures’. It is an irrefutable fact that the source of East Asian cultural territory lies in China
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