The Dialogue Of The Returned Students From Japan And West Countries

The thesis tries to discuss the unity and opposite of the returned students from Japan and from West countries in the angle of comparative culture. Their conflict was not merely the personal character and not completely the ideology standpoint, but for the deep culture connotation. When China was in the national crisis, the students went to study in Japan and West countries and hope to bring back the methods of saving homeland. Because they were influenced by different cultures, their thoughts of saving China were different. So, when they joined the saving the nation career, the difference did not avoid emerging. According to the point, we probe into the culture influencing the enlightening thoughts of the returned students from Japan and West countries, in order to get rid of the ideology criticizing. And standing on the height of culture and learning, we will evaluate again the thoughts value of the returned students from Japan and West countries.The thesis falls into six parts.Introduction: discussing the historical origins of the returned students from Japan and West countries and the research summary of evaluating the debate of the returned students from Japan and West countries.Chapter one: discussing that the returned students from Japan was influenced by the success of Japan Meiji reformation and thought that the biggest reason of Meiji reformation success was the martial spirit. So they wanted to take the martial spirit back to China and make China get rid of national crisis.Chapter two: discussing that the returned students from West countries were edified by the democracy and ruling of law in developed capitalism countries. The democracy spirit and rational thoughts let the returned students from the West understand the reason of poor and weak. They hoped to take the science, reason, democracy, system and ruling by laws to save the old China and take the West as a teacher in order to be independence and richness.Chapter three: discussing that after they returned China, they united to sponsor the vigorous new culture movement while they faced the same difficulties and same saving countries aim. They found the person from the historical dust mentioned the liberation of person, and advocated humanitarianism, democracy and science.Chapter four: discussing the inevitability of the conflict between the returned students from Japan and West countries for the culture which they received. They launched the debate for their thoughts standpoints after the agitation of Female normal university and March 18th massacre. After the debate, their thoughts trends to rupture at last. The returned students from Japan thought that the Western democracy and laws system could not save China and believed only violence was the good way of saving China, when Hushi and his comrades tried to construct democracy and laws system, and devoted themselves to Chinese education. The returned students from Japan pulled the martial spirit to the ultimate point and trusted the violent revolution was the best method of saving nation.Concluding remark: summarize the thoughts conflicts and its reasons, deeply discussing their last rupturing in thirties 20th century regardless of their aim of studying abroad and their wishes of saving homeland.