"If mankind wants to survive in the 21st century, they must recall what had happened over the past 2,500 years and draw on the wisdom of Contucius," a Nobel Prize winner declared in Paris in 1988. “如果人类要在21世纪生存下去,必须回首2500年,去汲取孔子的智慧”一位诺贝尔奖获得者在1988年的巴黎会议上如是说。