Study Of Chinese And Western Thought And Cultural Blend Of Confrontation Since The Founding Of New China

The culture refers to the sum of all the material and spiritual products created by human,which can be divided into three levels: material culture, system culture and ideological culture.Ideological culture is the highest level of culture which exists in a state of mind, including worldoutlook, outlook on life, values and methodology. The western culture is outgoing and active,which emphasizes individual freedom and desire for self transcendence. Chinese culture isintroverted and sedate, which emphasize collectivism and pay attention to ethics. China differs itsideological culture characteristic with the western world. The research into the communicationbetween the two cultures can better promote the development of Chinese ideological culture.Chinese see the cultural communication with the western very early. The earliest can be tracedback to the Han Dynasty, with the silk road the best attestation of Chinese and Western culturalexchanges. Since the modern times, the Opium War opened the door of China and China wasforced to open to the outside world, during which time the western culture surge into China and thetraditional culture was shocked. The advanced intellectuals appealed to the western learning, that is,learning foreign technology to self-improvement. The Westernization Movement, the reformmovement of1898and the new culture movement were held continuously, and the Chinesetraditional culture and the western bourgeois ideology culture collide and fuse in modern time,making the cultural exchanges reaching a new high.In the early years of the Republic, due to the ideological differences and conflicts, the westernthought and cultural blend little and battle is very fierce. After the Third Plenary Session of theEleven in1978, China carried out reform and opening up, in which foreign exchanges openedagain, China began to study and introduce the western advanced technology and ideas, and theexchange between China and Western rises. At the end of the80’s, because of the influence ofpeaceful evolution in the west, the serious social unrest broke out in China, in which Chinese andWestern cultural communication has been greatly affected and confrontation is actived again.Entering the new century, the continuous development and expansion of globalization, make theChinese and Western ideas and cultural blend show new features. China’s rapid economicdevelopment makes Chinese cultural influence increase, and the western thought and cultural blend of confrontation in the "t" situation began to reverse, China began to undertake the task ofpromoting the ideological and cultural exchanges between Chinese and Western.In Chinese and Western ideas and cultural blend of confrontation, China has exposed a lot ofproblems. At the same time of the study of western, we are lack of careful screening of the westernculture, the protection of national ideology traditional culture, and strong support of internationaldiscourse right, which makes Chinese culture security be threatened. At the same time, the lack ofinnovation ability and the influence of Chinese culture make us in disadvantage in the competitionof western ideological culture. Therefore, we must correctly deal with the western culture,attaching importance to ideological work, protect the traditional culture development, strive for theright of the international discourse, enhance the national cultural soft power, maintain Chineseculture security, and promote the development of Chinese thought and culture.From the historical process of Chinese and Western thoughts and cultural blend ofconfrontation,we could see that communication is represent the general trend, is mainly towardsthe future of Sino Western cultural relationship and is consistent with the law of development ofthought and culture. However, due to the conflict between social system and national interests, andthe cultural clash is inevitable, and will exist for a long time. We must continue to promote theSino Western cultural communication integration and at the same time, there must be a bettersolution to the problems, fully prepared to deal with the western culture, challenge.