现代性作为一个功能性的理论概念是对个体和社会形态及其品质由前现代转变成现代之后的现代现象的总体特征的把握与总结。
Modernity as a functional and theoretic conception is a grasp and summary of the shift of individuals and social forms from pre-modernism to postmodernism.
西方精英近年来的自我厌恶正慢慢地、坚定地转变为对中国的厌恶。在他们看来，中国是所有“西式”现代性的腐朽之物的缩影。
Slowly but surely, the western elite's self-loathing of recent years is transforming into a loathing of China, which is seen to represent everything that is rotten about "western-style" modernity.
在二十世纪九十年代出版的著作中，鲍曼将这种转变称之为从“现代性”到“后现代”的转变。
In his books in the 1990s Bauman wrote of this shift as being a shift from 'modernity' to 'post-modernity'.
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