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1、21stCenturyStrategiesforNewDaoism---AComprehensiveRenewalofChina’sDaoistCulture Prof.HUFuchenChineseAcademyofSocialSciences –PartOne– Asthedifferentcountries,peoplesandculturaltraditionsintheworldstridethroughthedoorofanewmillenniumandenterintothe21stcentur
2、y,thereisnothingmoreimportantthanreflectingonthehistoricaldevelopmentofthepastworldsoastoopenthevistaontomankind’sfuture.Inthepast100years,therehasbeenexplosivedevelopmentoftheenergystoresofmillionsofyears,radicallychangingallaspectsofsocietyandcultureinway
3、sneverbeforeseen,popularideasfrompreviousdecadesarequicklyeclipsed,andeveryonespendstheirtimetryingtoadapttotheoverwhelmingandmercurialchangeshappeningthroughouttheworld. Forthepastcenturyscienceandtechnologyhavedevelopedinleapsandboundsandmankind’sreliance
4、ontoolsofreasonhaschangedalmosttheentirefaceoftheworld. Thehighlevelofexploitationofnaturalresourceshasenrichedtheactivitiesofpeople,buttheecologicalcrisis,environmentalpollution,disastersandepidemics,andthedangerofwarthatarethreatstotheveryexistenceofmanki
5、ndconstitutearealitythat21stcenturymankindmustface. Inthepastcenturyahighlymaterialisticandspiritualcivilizationwascreated,butthecenturyalsosawtwoworldwarsinadditiontomanybloodybattlesandbarbaricandcriminalhumanslaughters. Notonlythis,aroundtheworldtherehas
6、beenarapidriseofgreedandcorruption,drugabuse,terrorism,moraldepravity,thepreeminenceofself-interestandothervilepractices. Todate,nuclearweaponssufficienttowipeouttheentirehumanrace,biologicalweaponsandotherarmamentsfromtheweaponsracearepartofaforcedifficult
7、tostop;thereisstillso-called“ThirdWorld”poverty,AIDS,epidemicsandthemalignantexplosionofthepopulation. Industrialization,urbanizationandthetransformationintoaninformationagearethethreemainaspectsofmodernization’sextremeweakeningofanindividual’sabilitytoexis
8、tandmaintainanindependentnature,andareresponsibleforlockinganindividualintothemechanizedorderofthegroup,forcinghis/herlabourtobecomenotjusttheinstrumentofothersbutalsoformulaicinnature,causingaloseofri