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The Rising Of Partisan Discussion

Posted on:2008-01-30Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:C W WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360215955978Subject:History of Ancient China
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In the perspectives of social movements theories, it is a valuable question to rethink that why does the partisan discussion movement rose in the emperor huang and emperor lin periods of late Han dynasty.Many scholars mentioned that the partisan discussion movement is the inevitable aftermath by the increase of intellectual clans. If it is true, many new intellectual clans would come forth on the eve of the partisan discussion movement In fact, only a few of intellectual clans appeared in the forty years before the partisan discussion movement. So the proposition brought forward is false or misguided by these scholars. Also many opponents of intellectuals—the eunuch stratum—was born in the intellectual clans.If the rising of the partisan discussion movements was not because of the class basis of the intellectuals, where did the power come from? It came from the class conformity of the intellectuals. Compared to any other times in their past, the intellectuals contacted and communicated with each other more frequently in the period. What is the essential content of their collective identity? Local culture and locality identity were regarded to the most important content. In my opinion, the local identity is a weak bond to the intellectuals. The essential content of their collective identity is class identity.Which approaches was used to make, boost and intensify the conformity of the union? The bonds between the teachers and the students, the officials and their recommenders, and varieties of assemblies played crucial roles in the making of the conformity. The comments on the intellectuals was the reflection of the conformity, meanwhile intensified the conformity.The rising of the partisan discussion movements had begun since the eunuchs troubled the politics, which is not far away from the enates holding the power. Why did the eunuch stratum become to the opponent of the intellectuals while the enates did not. It is the consequences of the constitution arrangement combined with the different ideas of the intellectuals to the eunuchs and the enates.The last question is why did the partisan discussion movements get up rapidly and also eclipse in a short time. The key to the question is morality. Morality had acted as a powerful tool when the intellectuals united with each other and fascinated the social masses. Since the morality became their solitary goal, their actions were not benefit with the country, and anybody can't be burden with the morality cross. At the same time, the soulful intellectuals acted on a luminous stage with a grey background, where the people did not abide with morality. So the partisan discussion movements extinguished rapidly.
Keywords/Search Tags:intellectuals, intellectual clans, the partisan discussion movement, class identity, morality
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