Wafai: The image of China in the mind of the West has changed from the admiration of Chinese civilization to a different view

Wafai: The image of China in the mind of the West has changed from the admiration of Chinese civilization to a different view

"Hamid Vafai", a researcher in the field of China and a member of the Faculty of Foreign Languages of the University of Tehran, said on Monday, October 27, at the international conference on half a century of diplomatic relations between Iran and the People's Republic of China and the panel "Paradigm change of the study of China in the Western world and its effects on the Second American China Studies", was the serious model of the Second World War in China. During this period, special chairs and centers for Chinese studies were developed in American universities, including Harvard University, and Harvard became one of the most important centers of Chinese studies in the world.

🔹 From this point on, we witness a conscious change in the focus of research in Chinese American studies; This means that the focus of studies changes from classical China to modern China. This evolution can be seen as the beginning of new periods in the history of Sinology; The rounds whose main characteristic is the transition from approaches based on humanities and text studies to approaches based on social sciences.