美国前国务卿基辛格博士在北大演讲时,也曾谈到应该如何认识中国,如何深刻全面地认识中国。基于悠久的历史和丰富的文化,渺小的个人见识在如此庞大的文明面前无从下手,如何认识中国,基辛格博士个人认为:这的确是个挑战! 甘阳的这篇文章也许能帮助我们更深入地认识“我们怎么看待自己,怎么看待西方,怎么进行比较,怎么看东方,怎么从西方看东方,或者怎么从东方看东方”的问题。另外,结论如何也许并不重要,但是这种反思过程是需要的。 During his speech at Peking University, Dr. Kissinger, the former U.S. Secretary of State, also talked about how to understand China and how to understand China deeply and comprehensively. Based on the long history and rich culture, small personal knowledge can not be started before such a huge civilization and how to understand China. Dr. Kissinger personally thinks: This is indeed a challenge! This article by Gan Yang may help us to deepen our understanding. To understand the question of “how do we look upon ourselves, how we treat the West, how we compare, how we look at the East, how we look at the East from the West, or how we look at the East from the East”. In addition, the conclusion may not matter, but this process of reflection is needed.