Confucianesimo, capitalismo ed ecologia: capire la Cina contemporanea

For decades, the American model has served as the political, economic, and cultural compass of the West. Today, however, that centrality is increasingly showing cracks. In this scenario, China emerges as a power capable of moving with strategic vision, long-term planning, and a development model that challenges many Western categories. This is the thesis that philosopher and sinologist Selusi Ambrogio, professor at the University of Macerata and one of the leading scholars of Chinese thought in Italy, developed in two meetings organized by the Department of Humanities in Catania and Ragusa. In the video interview conducted at the Benedictine Monastery, Professor Ambrogio explains why understanding contemporary China means first and foremost freeing ourselves from certain Western interpretative categories that risk obscuring, rather than clarifying, the complexity of the Chinese phenomenon. This discussion does not imply adopting China as the world's new "compass," but rather invites us to understand the emerging political, economic, and cultural balances that the entire world will have to grapple with.