Interaction and Identity: A Comparison of Ethnic Identity in Classical China and Greece
Centered on ancient China and Greece, the book discusses the identity changes experienced by the two major groups between the 8th and 5th centuries BC. The author argues that the great interethnic interactions that took place during this period contributed to a cultural shift in Chinese and Greek identity. Before the inter-ethnic interaction, the ethnic identity of China and Greece was mainly based on blood as the standard, and after the inter-ethnic interaction, the cultural standard became a new landmark of the ethnic boundary, forming a tradition of cultural identity, and at the same time generating a sense of cultural prejudice against others. In addition to this similarity, the ethnic identity changes of China and Greece are also different. The Chinese state abandoned the blood criterion of identity and based on cultural standards; The Greeks adopted a composite standard of culture and kinship, and the legacy of the criterion of kinship shows an early form of racism. The Chinese state adopted a one-sided way of thinking to understand the relationship between self and other, while the Greeks adopted a dualistic way of thinking. The differences in Chinese and Greek ethnic identities brought different cultural heritages to Chinese civilization and Greek-Western civilization respectively.
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