Confucianism and the Family
by George A. De Vos
It is a very interesting book for those who want to explore more and deeper the relationsship of old traditions and family life in Japan. You will see how important the Confucianism was for establishing and regualting family and social life. Up to now. By reading you will …………………………..
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More to familism
again I address to the lectures at the DCAP Heidelberg Congress on “body and soul” in East and West. Well family in China is related to relatives and the state. You could say: ” the family is identical to a small state and a state is identical to a family”. Therefore you could focus it to the following three rules:……………………
Read MoreBound to familism
We all, in the West and the East, live in families. We are brouhgt up by parents. This family life gives us the chance to develop ourseves as human being: To find our identity, to be regarded as a specific personality and to become part of social life.
And yet there are big differences. Differences which …………………….
Read MoreJapan Day 2012…..
Düsseldorf in Germany is a center of Japanese living and working. There are many Japanese firms located, a well known Japanese cultural field to be found and thousands of Japanese who live in and nearby the city.
Every year there is the Japan Day with a full and pittoresque programm throughout the whole Saturday: theater, Manga, Cosplay, music, dance performance andsoon.
Insofar this day focusses a year of planned verbal and nonverbal communication. It is a day for meeting East and West in one place. It is a day to communicate in the way you want to.
http://www.japantag-duesseldorf-nrw.de/index.php?id=305&L=1
Read MoreChina cultural year in Germany
today the China cultural year was opened in Germany in Berlin with a wonderful concert. Have a look.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/photo/2012-01/31/c_131383950.htm
Have a nice evening. 😉
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German-Chinese Academy for Psychotherapy
When reflecting the West-East-Integration I often think of my experience of the DCAP congress in May 2011 in Heidelberg / Germany. The issue of this congress was “body & soul – concepts in East and West”. It was a very intensive experience to listen to all the collegues froim Germany and China. It was also emotionally moving and personally impressive……….
Read MoreSpeechless between two cultures….
……That’s what I experience when writing this blog. Of course I know what and how to do, when trying to figure out some western point of view or some eastern point of view. Of course I can put it into words and if you understand English you ought to understand what I mean.
But it’s not that easy. I think you know what I mean: Trying to put some experience or opinion into German words, translate it to English can of course lead to some different interpretation or misunderstanding. Trying to make someone from the eastern side of the hemisphere, who speaks and understands English, understand, makes it even more difficult. Because English is not my mother tongue and English is not his or her mother tongue.
So there are five obvious fields of transmission………………….
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Eating and enjoying……
a good friend of mine just left for China. He will stay there for about three weeks. He went to China roundabout 1985 when the country still was so different to nowadays. He remembers and told us how Beijing looked like without so many cars, just bicycles, busses and some taxis. No paved road to the airport andsoon. From those days he went there for so many times that he perhaps can´t count the stays there any more.
We listened to him and his stories while enjoying some wonderful Chinese food. ………
Read MoreGerman romanticism….
German romanticism….….and Chinese!
It feels like this when I imagine Germans and Western people feeling excluded like me as I told you yesterday. Excluded by this so charming Chinese smile of a group. Watching the group, looking for some kind of contact, but just facing this smile.
I know about the importance of the group in Chinese social life. I know about the role of group cohesion and it´s relevance for social behaviour, for social functioning and I know about the role of group identity which gives personal orientation. Which also carries personal identity. Which shapes and characterizes identity at all. – In China……………………….
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