ABSTRACT
The dichotomy between “identity” and “globalization” broadens in a different economic and societal context the classic oppositions between “tradition” and “modernity” or “past” and “present.” Midway between the hope to retrieve a prestigious but idealized past and the desire to be realist and modern, or even between an ancestral identity and a prospective otherness, there is some space for a prospective identity, for an adherence to different values under the guise of regaining one’s tradition. In China, the revival of Confucian values and thoughts is central to this topic.
