Legătura dintre identitatea culturală chineză și “Noua eră cu trăsături chinezești”
The Connection between the Chinese Cultural Identity and the “New Era with Chinese Characteristics”

Summary/Abstract: For the first time in the modern era, the most powerful state in the world – which is supposed to become China – will not be one of the West and will be one with very different civilization roots. In the West, there is a widespread assumption that as countries modernize, they also westernize, but on the Chinese case, this is an illusion. At the same time, there is an assumption that modernity is a simple product of competition, markets and technology. But that’s not the case. Modernity is equally shaped by history and culture. China is not like the West nor will it become like this. It will remain fundamentally different in many aspects. The question is how can we try to understand what China is? In this regard, the problem we face in the West is that there is a conventional approach on China by which we understand it through western terms, using western ideas. What is clear is that using western concepts we cannot understand anything about this state. The world can be understood and interpreted only within particular cultural and linguistic framework. Each state owns specific lenses through which it perceives the world and so is China. We need to be very objective and seek getting a sense of the shades which make China being Chinese. There is a specific Chinese identity and strategic culture we need to discover and try to understand it in order to make clear what truly represents the nowadays Chinese doctrine and also how the future may be shaped.

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