Introduction: The Homeland of Culture and Man

Abstract

The second half of the twentieth century has witnessed a new round of profound changes happening to man’s living condition, which consequently start off a series of conflicts: the decline of each country’s tradition with the evolvement of modernization; a greater complexity of the different values and conflicts among civilizations coming along with the deepening of globalization; increasing perplexity of consumers at the poverty of their spiritual life against the prosperity of market economy and commercialism; a unprecedented debate about humanity, natural resources, and environment with numerous miracles created by science and technology, etc. The changes to man’s living condition are so sharp and profound that many people, not to speak of the whole people and country, overwhelmed by their bewilderment and feel urged to reraise and reconsider questions such as “who are we?”, “how are we supposed to live?”, and “whereupon shall I rest my soul?”.