Chinese Classics: A Discipline System Inheriting Traditional Culture

"Chinese Classics" has rich connotation as a modern discipline. While the research objects are traditional, the teaching methods and research system of Chinese Classics are rather new and modern as a positive supplement of the humanities mainly based on the discipline of Literature, History and Philosophy. Firstly, it reflects the problem of suitability of modern discipline system applied in Chinese classical study. Secondly, it focuses on advancing and enriching the positive parts of Chinese tradition rather than criticizing the negative parts. As for the teaching methods, Chinese Classic courses pay much attention to the study of classic works and emphasize on the balance between knowledge and value, which makes it a suitable carrier of liberal arts education that can have great influence not only in professional learning of humanities but also the liberal education with the purpose of culture inheritance and personality cultivation.