%0 Journal Article %T On Ups and Downs of Chinese Cultural Confidence %A Guiying Zhou %J Asian Culture and History %D 2012 %I %R 10.5539/ach.v4n2p140 %X Chinese nationality has experienced ups and downs in its cultural confidence with the nation¡¯s rise and fall. China has become the world¡¯s second largest economy and its cultural confidence should be enhanced so that China¡¯s soft power will be strengthened too. Chinese cultural confidence can be restored by taking the following three measures: to improve cultural awareness, to understand and rethink traditional Chinese culture deeply and to deal with the relationship between Chinese culture and western culture properly. %U http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ach/article/view/14931