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Lin Tongqi : an oral history

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Chen, Xin, S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Sloan School of Management.
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John Van Maanen.
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Abstract
In this thesis, I explore the life of Professor Lin Tongqi, a well-known scholar of American Chinese studies, by using an oral history methodology. This oral history is named "Suffering and Thinking," and my goal is to illustrate how a thoughtful soul developed. His life is a trajectory in which Western and Eastern cultures are integrated, a life that is full of confusions and reliefs, challenges and responses, twists and turns, and unexpected insights and transcendences. This oral history also illustrates in a microcosm the fate of intellectuals who lived during the approximately 100-hundred-year tumult and transformation that resulted in modern-day China. Looking back is one way to consider the future. A conversation with Lin Tongqi on Ancient Chinese thoughts follows, which touches on several factors: the dynamics of understanding the Chinese culture, comparative methods of culture study, the relationships between eternal issues and contemporary issues, as well as a brief discussion on the issues facing contemporary China, and the future of Chinese society.
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Thesis: S.M. in Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2014.
 
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 80-81).
 
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2014
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90230
Department
Sloan School of Management
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Sloan School of Management.

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