Yu Ying-shih once said that one of the barriers to China's modernization is a confused value system, and a major source of that confusion is the notion that traditional culture and modern life are opposite, mutually incompatible entities.
余英時曾指出，中國現代化的困難之一，即源於價值觀念的混亂，把傳統文化和現代生活籠統地看做兩個不相容的對立體，尤其是亂源之所在。