Unit 1Chinese Culture
Text AConcepts of International Relations: Impartiality
or Equality?
Henry Kissinger
Text BThe Diary of Matthew RicciMatthew Ricci
Text CChinese and Western Civilization Contrasted
Bertrand Russell
Unit 2Foreign Impressions
Text AEnglish Traits
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Text BImpressions of America
Oscar Wilde
Text COn the German National Character
Oswald Spengler
Unit 3Economy
Text AThe End of LaissezFaire
John Maynard Keynes
Text BAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth
of Nations
Adam Smith
Text CThe Secret of Primitive Accumulation
Karl Marx
Unit 4Psychology
Text AThe Dream Is the Fulfillment of a Wish
Sigmund Freud
Text BThe Stages of Life
Carl G. Jung
Text CDoes Human Nature Change?
John Dewey
Unit 5Life
Text AHow to Grow Old
Bertrand Russell
Text BWhat Life Means to Me
Jack London
Text CThinking as a Hobby
William Golding
Unit 6Ethics
Text AThree Independent Factors in Morals
John Dewey
Text BThe Spirit of Capitalism
Max Weber
Text CPreface to On the Genealogy of Morality
Friedrich Nietzsche
Unit 7Speeches
Text AThe Inaugural Address
John F. Kennedy
Text BGive Me Liberty or Give Me Death
Patrick Henry
Text CVictory Speech
Barack Obama
Unit 8Literature
Text AThe Death of the Moth
Virginia Woolf
Text BSong of Myself
Walt Whitman
Text CThe Secret Life of Walter Mitty
James Thurber