Research on cultural key words originated in the UK

yet it is not a western academic monopoly in terms of methodology and practice. As another thought resource

the tradition of Chinese classical hermeneutics from the pre-Qin period to modern times has been ignored. It operates differently from Raymond Williams’s seven items and doesn’t just focus on new meanings or meaning changes of a word. For research on cultural key words

the current theoretical and practical problems can be solved only by combining the occidental and the oriental thought resources. Only in this way will the tradition of Chinese classical hermeneutics be activated and the deviation of western cultural studies rectified.