Sir, The excellent recent analyses of China by FT correspondents (James Kynge and Gideon Rachman come quickly to mind) are insightful. But China thinks holistically, not analytically, with cognition emphasising connections, coincidence, correlation and trial-and-error dynamics. The west relies on Aristotelian logic but China progresses by Confucian relationships. Chinese culture retains its stability through protective networks (guanxi) controlling resources, and avoiding, where possible, external controls.
尊敬的編輯先生,近期英國《金融時報》記者們(迅速進入腦海的是金奇(James Kynge)和吉狄恩•拉赫曼(Gideon Rachman)的名字)有關中國的出色分析頗有見地。但中國的思維模式是整體把握型的,而非逐點分析型的,在認知上強調事物間的聯繫性、共生性、相關性、以及試錯式的動態發展。西方思維依賴的是亞里士多德的邏輯學,而中國的發展則是基於孔子的人際關係論。中國文化保持穩定是憑藉保護性網路(即關係網),這種關係網掌控著資源,並且儘可能地避免外部干預。