The Spirit of the Chinese People

"The Spirit of the Chinese People" is a book published in 1915 by Malaysian-Chinese scholar Gu Hongming.

Narrator : Manling

Program Producer: Huang Rui

The book offers interesting insights into the impact of Confucianism on the Chinese people and culture, one of them being that Chinese people, as a race, are able to live the life of a child in their heart, and that is the secret of perpetual youth.

Narrator : Manling

Program Producer: Huang Rui

The author talks about the greatest contribution of Confucius and that it was he who gave the Chinese people the idea of a State.

Narrator : Manling

Program Producer: Huang Rui

Gu Hongming talks about the state religion and the family religion, and again, why the Chinese people do not feel the need for religion.

Narrator : Manling

Program Producer: Huang Rui

In the book "The Spirit of the Chinese People", Malaysian-Chinese scholar Gu Hongming talks about the moral law and the law of the gentleman in Confucianism. Although the opinions seem dated, the book offers interesting insights into the impact of Confucianism on the Chinese people and culture.

Narrator : Manling

Program Producer: Huang Rui

This part of the book "The Spirit of the Chinese People" talks about how Confucianism awakens and kindles within men.

Narrator : Manling

Program Producer: Huang Rui

This is one of the essays collected in "The Spirit of the Chinese People", which is titled the Chinese Language. Gu begins with a question that most foreigners who have tried to learn Chinese would ask: Is Chinese a difficult language?

This episode brings you the article titled "John Smith in China," in which Gu Hongming Talks about the difference between the East and West.

Narrator : Manling

Program Producer: Huang Rui

In the article titled "A Great Sinologue", Gu Hongming makes an attempt to estimate the quality and value of a Sinologue of his time. In discussing some selecting articles of the Sinologue’s publication, Gu points out this Sinologue who can translate Chinese sentences but cannot interpret and understand Chinese thought. Is that so?

Narrator : Manling

Program Producer: Huang Rui

This episode is part I of the article titled Chinese Scholarship, in which the author makes an attempt to examine what had already been accomplished in terms of Chinese scholarship before the 1920s.

Narrator : Manling

Program Producer: Huang Rui