Retrospect And Reflection

Everything experiences the process of generating and evolving, so do theuniversity professors in modern China. Though the history contributions of manyfamous universities and professors in modern China are well known to people,integral cognition on formation and roles of university professors in modern Chinaseem obscure. University professors group, university organizations and socialdevelopment are necessarily related to each other, therefore, studying universityprofessors is a very meaningful issue.In this paper, from view of multiple disciplines, university professors in modernChina was taken as a key factor in the systematic structure of modern Chinese society,Chinese universities and intellectuals; the actions and reactions between universityprofessors and modern Chinese society and modern Chinese universities were mainlydiscussed; the basic problems such as their formation and development, existingforms, role and effect, etc. were explained from following aspects: the generationbackground, formation mechanism, structural characteristics and social impact of theuniversity professors in modern China. Integral cognition on university professors inmodern China was obtained through the retrospect and reflection, and someenlightenments were gained in the process."The introduction of Western learning to the East"gaves birth to modern Chineseuniversities, and meanwhile university professor becames a new occupation.. Theformation of the university professors in modern China was closely related to theidentity conversion of scholars after the abolition of imperial examination and careeroptions of the returned Chinese overseas students. It could be said that the universityprofessors in modern China are the co-product of transition of Chinese educationsystem and individual value choice of intellectuals in that time. In different historicalperiods, the historical progressive trail and feature of the university professors inmodern China were determined by social political and economical and culturalreforms.The employment system was a mechanism of permitting the entrance designed forthe academic profession of university professors; it also offered an important referentsystem for the quality standard of university professors. Modern Chinese government promulgated decrees to standardize the qualifications of university professors.However, universities have certain degrees of freedom in actual appointment process,which contributes to the complex situation of the combination of diversity and unitywithin the university professors in modern China.As a subsystem of education, the university professors in modern China has acertain structure characteristics, and according to different standards it could bedivided into different structures from its elements, energy-level and personality, whichis the basic carrier for the group to function and realize the value.University professors in modern China are burdened with historical mission of"saving the nation with science"and"enlightening democracy", duing to Chineseinternal and external"troubles",and they have been playing multiple roles, such asacademic role,social role and political role. It was the professors's self-consciousnessand self-identity of their roles that realized their important influence and effect in bothuniversities and society.To sum up, the special environment created the very influential universityprofessors in modern China which has characters of blending the Chinese-WesternCultures and freedom and independence. Looking back on history, we have to ponderupon the problem:we have to inherit the excellent gene of the university professorsin modern China to bring up new influential generation of university professors.