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China Cultural Syncretism
Religious Separation Within China's Lack of Cultural Syncretism
Interestingly enough, several of the political factions and domestic wars that have typified the vast majority of China's extensive history can be traced, in large measure, to the country's cultural roots and its ability (or lack thereof) to rectify its inherent cultural tendencies with those of other nations and the surrounding world at large. In particular, the cultural, philosophical and political mandates and manifestos of Europe and Japan can be directly attributed to the political state of China today, particularly when one considers the division between the communist People's Republic of China (which primarily occupies the mainland) and its progressively left-wing agenda, and the right-wing tendencies of the Republic of China which has occupied Taiwan and its surrounding islands for more than the past 60 years. The speculative historian could make an excellent argument that this division in hegemony between Chinese politics could have been avoided had cultural syncretism...
Sun Yat-sen, who may well be considered the founder of the Republic of China in the early to mid-20th century, has noted that the primary inspiration for his attempted overthrow of the Quing Dynasty during the Wuchang Uprising was Christianity, a religion which was brought to China centuries earlier from Europe by Britain among other salient nations. The following quotation demonstrates the effect of Christianity upon Sun Yat-sen's rebellion. "…to Christianity more than to any other single cause. Along with its ideals of religious freedom…it inculcates everywhere a doctrine of universal love and peace. These ideals appeal to the Chinese; they largely caused the Revolution, and they largely determined its peaceful character (Khan, 2011)."
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