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(shí)報(bào)》記者們（迅速進(jìn)入腦海的是金奇(James Kynge)和吉迪恩?拉赫曼(Gideon Rachman)的名字）有關(guān)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(diǎn)分析型的，在認(rèn)知上強(qiáng)調(diào)事物間的聯(lián)系性、共生性、相關(guān)性、以及試錯(cuò)式的動(dòng)態(tài)發(fā)展。西方思維依賴的是亞里士多德的邏輯學(xué)，而中國的發(fā)展則是基于孔子的人際關(guān)系論。中國文化保持穩(wěn)定是憑借保護(hù)性網(wǎng)絡(luò)（即關(guān)系網(wǎng)），這種關(guān)系網(wǎng)掌控著資源，并且盡可能地避免外部干預(yù)。