Overview
- Covers a broad range of subjects in 20th-century culture, such as revolutions and political movements
- Focuses on conflicts between Western and Eastern cultures, industrialization and modernization, and the ethics and values of culture and arts
- Discusses virtual reality, a latecomer with enormous potential to change the life and culture of mankind
- Proposes a fair and impartial social order, based on humanized science and standardized finance
Part of the book series: China Academic Library (CHINALIBR)
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This book examines the cultural concepts that guided the development of the “age of mankind”— the changes that took place in historical, philosophical, scientific, religious, literary, and artistic thought in the 20th century. It discusses a broad range of major topics, including the spread of commercial capitalism; socialist revolutions; the two world wars; anti-colonialist national liberation movements; scientific progress; the clashes and fusion of Eastern and Western cultures; globalization; women’s rights movements; mass media and entertainment; the age of information and the digital society. The combination of cultural phenomena and theoretical descriptions ensures a unity of culture, history and logic. Lastly, the book explores the enormous changes in lifestyles and the virtualized future, revealing cultural characteristics and discussing 21st -century trends in the context of information technology, globalization and the digital era.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
The author has achieved an outstanding accomplishment in history of human culture and published various monographs; the author is considered as one of the pioneers and representatives of the “Interdisciplinary for New Culture Studies” in contemporary China.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Brief History of Human Culture in the 20th Century
Authors: Qi Xin
Series Title: China Academic Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9973-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Publishing Co., Ltd 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-9972-5Published: 09 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-9975-6Published: 09 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-9973-2Published: 27 August 2019
Series ISSN: 2195-1853
Series E-ISSN: 2195-1861
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLII, 275
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Cultural History, Social/Human Development Studies, Cultural Studies, Philosophy of the Social Sciences