View Of Sun Li On Intellectuals In His Late Years

Sun Li's GengTang's Ten Works after the Cultural Revolution represents a peak of his life time art thoughts and implies his status and achievements as a great artist. Of the works, many are comments of past artists, providing a picture of intellectuals fate and forming a unique view on intellectuals. Sun Li's view on intellectuals puts humanism first and is based on human's double "instincts", seeking the causes for Chinese intellectuals tragic life. The view is to call for people to pay attention to intellectuals fate in the history and solves the two dilemmas contemporary intellectuals face, political and market economy, so as to reform a new character of Chinese intellectuals. To understand Sun Li's view on intellectuals is to better understand late years' Sun Li and his thoughts and to see the insights of his spiritual world.