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Structure: The HOPE Framework

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In this chapter, I provide an overview of the Enlightened Needs and Pursuit (ENP) paradigm derived from The Bubble Theory, and use it to organize core elements of cultures into four structural components. The ENP is an individual level paradigm that can be extended to aggregate levels of cultures. The diagram below is a modified version of the original diagram.

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  1. Ding, M. (2013). The bubble theory (English Edition 2013). New York: Springer, Fudan Press. (Chinese Edition 2018).

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Ding, M. (2019). Structure: The HOPE Framework. In: Rethinking Chinese Cultural Identity. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9961-9_3

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