Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.

For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.

Cohabitation among elderly people is becoming more common in Chinese society.

In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language.

Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.