近几年的文化研究看似热闹,实仍处在脱颖阶段。其中一个重要的表现是:学人们往往热衷于中西文化优劣长短的比较。这也是自五四时期梁漱溟、胡适以来文化研究的共同弱点。当然,这种现象的出现是不可避免的,且有其必要性。但若仅局限于对中西文化孰优孰劣、孰短孰长的比较,缺乏对中西文化各自的价值系统作深层的探究,其结果往往只是浅层的,此亦一是非,彼亦一是非,不可能得出普遍性的结论。我根据自己1985年以来在新加坡、香港、日本及西德、美国等地访问讲学的亲身感受,认为:无论是已经走向现代化的国家,或是正在走向现代化的国家,都发生过“文化危机”,就是说自身本来的传统文化遇 Cultural studies in recent years, seemingly lively, it is still at a standstill stage. An important manifestation of this is that people often have a keen interest in comparing the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese and Western cultures. This is also the common weakness of cultural studies since Liang Shuming and Hu Shi in the May 4th Movement. Of course, the appearance of this phenomenon is inevitable and has its necessity. However, if we confine ourselves to the comparison of the merits of the Chinese and Western cultures and the comparison of the short and the long of the Chinese and Western cultures, we will find that there is a lack of in-depth exploration into the respective value systems of Chinese and Western cultures and the results are often only superficial. , It is impossible to draw a general conclusion. Based on my personal experience of giving lectures in Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, West Germany and the United States since 1985, I think that “cultural crisis” has occurred both in countries that have already gone to modernization or in countries that are moving toward modernization. , That is to say their own traditional culture