Wang, Keping. "Thome Fang's Culture Ideal and Transcultural Pursuit." (Conference Paper- International Conference on Creativity and Process: East-West Dialogue 2007).

The basic line of Thome Fang's thought in his writings features his permanent preoccupation with the possibility of human enculturation as his cultural ideal.  By such an ideal is meant an idealized paradigm for the development of human personality.  This paradigm is by no means to build a castle in the air but intended to be grounded, as it were, on a conceivable blueprint of a nine-storied pagoda largely composed of three kinds of world, say,  the material world at the bottom, the life world in the middle, and the soul world on the top.  What is perceived within the structure is a process of two-way progression characterized by a dynamic interaction between a downward and an upward movement for the sake of human perfection.  The process of this ultimate and noble telos as such is constructive, interactive and progressive by nature.  In order to facilitate the pursuit of the above mentioned ideal, there arises the necessary involvement of the threefold process strategy as far as I could observe from Fang's transcultural pondering over the three cultural origins including Greek, modern European and Chinese altogether, and also from the Whiteheadian philosophy of process thinking in principle.  To my mind the strategy itself is primarily composed of three sub-process, namely, the comparative process for cross-cultural cognition or awareness, the empathetic process for cross-cultural transpection, and the creative process for cross-cultural transformation.  Quite naturally, these three approaches par excellence are assumed to be correlative and interdependent, all serving to demolish the cultural boundaries, break the homo-cultural-centerism of any kind, and promote cross-culturally the creative transformation in a healthy and cosmopolitan sense, so to speak.