In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese langu….

It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically see….

The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world..

And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the ….

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment ….

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility..

Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the C….

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but th….

The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intellige….

India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border..

Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic..

It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian mis….

Grasp the opportunity with both hands to feel really very special as an Indian reading these quotes on the Indian Independence Day. A number of famou….

Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists..

No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or….

Whenever you do something without asking yourself, "Why am I doing this?"-that is meaningless life... . The "why" of life makes it meaningful... . On….

Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance..

Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers ….

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority..

In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding..

For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion fir….