It has inherited the problem of ascendant Western culture and declining Eastern culture that arose in the late Qing, and has added to this the disruptions of industrial and commercial development and rapid modernization. Yet, though Chinese have been arguing for a century about how best to cope with such changes, no very concrete systems have taken shape.
在龔鵬程看來，今天台灣社會的變遷又比朱熹時代大得多，承繼清末以來的西潮東漸，工商發達、快速現代化，但中國人吵了一百年，卻沒有太多具體的制度形成。