有多少研究文化的人就有多少关于文化的定义,这句话在学术界流传很广。然而在《中外文化比较研究》的作者那里,在文化(culture)一词的明确上却取得了较为一致的看法:文化是一个恒常不变的价值体系(a system of values)。当然,这一明确有发生学角度的,如魏斐德指出文化一词产生于近代西方,“是工业革命以后对机械性、物质 How many people who study culture have a definition of culture, a phrase widely circulated in academia. However, in the author of “A Comparative Study of Sino-Foreign Cultures,” there is a more consistent view on the definition of culture: Culture is a system of values. Of course, this is a clear angle of occurrence, such as Wei Fade pointed out that the word culture originated in the modern West, "is the industrial revolution after the mechanical, material