Plight of Traditional Confucian Classics in the Conflict Between Chinese and Western Cultures——A Case Study: Liao Ping's Di Qiu Xin Yi

In Chinese and Western cultural conflict, Liao Ping was regarded as an icon at the end of Confucian classics era during the transition from traditional Confucian classics study to modern academic study. Though western geographical knowledge had significant impact on the traditional concept of'China is the center of the world', Liao Ping still believed the kingly way of China and attempted to annotate creatively that, despite the non-centural position in geography, China holds superiority in culture and Chinese culture would spread to the whole world along with the expansion of world transportation, and so Confucianism would unify the world cultures sooner or later. That is an extreme cultural nationalism, and also a response to intense collision between Chinese and the Western cultures.