“Xiang Thinking” in Chinese and Western Views

Abstract

Xiang thinking qua the earliest thinking mode of mankind is also the most creative one, whose early-mature form of theory is typically embodied in traditional Chinese culture. Albeit it was originally the most enjoyable thinking mode of Chinese cultural elites, it has become alien, even novel, to the modern Chinese cultural and thinking sphere due to the fact that modern China has been “westernized” and has broken away from its traditional culture.