Chapter 35 conclusion

To explore the path of China's development, is it superstition of books, or respect for practice?Zhang Weiwei's "China Shock" gave us Western-educated people a strong thought shock: Among the more than 100 countries in the world that Zhang Weiwei has personally observed, none of the non-Western countries have succeeded in imitating the Western model! …Should we fit our feet and conform to Western values; or should we seek truth from facts and sum up the experience of the revival of Chinese civilization?This is what Zhang Weiwei’s observation brought to Chinese and foreign readers’ thinking.

Professor Zhang Weiwei compared the facts of the more than 100 countries he visited with China, and the conclusion he drew was relatively objective.Professor Zhang is not only a scholar engaged in research in Europe, but also has a life background in China. He faces the reality of China squarely. His perspective may not be available to domestic and Western scholars.This is where he succeeds. Professor Zhang Weiwei put forward the concept of "civilized country" based on his own experience in more than 100 countries, combined with his observation of China's reality, which enriched the connotation of the "China model".The reality of China's 30 years of reform and opening up has sent a message to the world: the "Chinese model" is higher and more humane.

The reason why "China Shock" is worthy of people's serious reading is that it guides people to think that every civilized country and every civilization developed independently by mankind will not only have different paths to modernity, but also the connotation that modernity should have. , cannot be the same.Civilization is a product of history, and man is also a product of history.Whether it is modernity or the path of modernization, in the final analysis, it must be the historical choice of the civilized country itself, and it must be the historical choice of the most people in the civilized country.

"International Herald Tribune" published an article by Professor Zhang Weiwei on October 1, 2009, on the occasion of China's 60th National Day: "Eight Concepts Behind China's Success", and added a caption: "The West should study China The idea behind the dramatic rise" ("The West would do well to study the ideas behind China's dramatic rise").