Independent Self and Interdependent Self: Their Emergence,Transformation and the Formation of Chinese Self-construal Viewedfrom the Perspective of the Evolution of Culture and History(PDF)
《南京师大学报》（社会科学版）[ISSN:1006-6977/CN:61-1281/TN]
- Issue:
- 2019年04期
- Page:
- 61-77
- Research Field:
- 心理学研究
- Publishing date:
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- Title:
- Independent Self and Interdependent Self: Their Emergence,Transformation and the Formation of Chinese Self-construal Viewedfrom the Perspective of the Evolution of Culture and History
- Author(s):
- WANG Fengyan
- Keywords:
- rice theory; independent self; interdependent self; moral self; soft self; emperor system; thoughtof three bonds
- PACS:
- -
- DOI:
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- Abstract:
- The Chinese self-construal was originally also an independent self, which was mainly bornwith the emergence of private property and weapons in the process of fighting against others and otherethnic groups rather than planting wheat. The interdependent self, was gradually formed after 521BCEalong with the establishment and development of Confucianism. After that, came the era characterized bythe coexistence of the independent self and the interdependent self with the latter occupying a dominantposition.This transformation was not caused by rice planting but by Confucianism’s ultimate victory over theobstacles to its dissemination.The period from the Qin and Han Dynasties to the Qing Dynasty was the stagewhere Chinese self-construal finally developed into a stable shape: the Chinese self-construal entered theimplicit biculturalism era from the explicit multiculturalism era in the Spring and Autumn Periods and theWarring States Period. From the perspective of ecological rationality, the formation and evolution of Chineseself-construal is the result of environmental adaptation, which proves that it is not the long history of ricecultivation that has shaped the interdependent self of Chinese.
Last Update: 2019-07-25