How has the Western culture integrated classical Chinese concepts such as Yin Yang? Where do the twain meet?

How do the differing approaches to polarities affect the ethical life?

Was Jesus an Eastern or Western thinker? Which elements of Communism in China are just abstractions of classical Chinese principles?

"Two things seem significant. The first is that for most Chinese polarities, descriptions such as antithesis, contradiction, and dichotomy are misleading, since the Chinese terms involved usually imply either complementary opposition or cyclical alternation. The second is that the widespread use of such polarities in both everyday discourse and formal philosophy suggests a distinctive attitude toward abstraction - one in which abstract ideas tend to be expressed in concrete terms without "dialectical" resolution into a new abstract term as in the Indo-European linguistic tradition."

- pg. 86 ,"China's Cultural Heritage, the Ch'ing Dynasty 1644 - 1912", 1983, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado

Richard Smith