Mohism In Late Qing Dynasty And Early Republic ( 1895-1925 )

One of the eventful milestones of Chinese history is the late Qing dynasty and early Republic of China, which is also a crucial period of Chinese cultural from tradition to modernization. The research of Mohism, as a branch of "Zhuzixue", had been growing in recently 2000 years after the depression. Under this background, between the conflict and mergence of Chinese and Western culture, the Mohism experience renaissance, according to the foundation of textual criticism and the similarities with western learning. During this situation, Mohism research had formed obvious era characteristic. They are as followed: Firstly, the number of people involved had reached the highest. Secondly, the value people pursued tended to be various. Thirdly, the pragmatism was favored. Besides, using western methods to solve Chinese problem was popular. Finally, the research field had been more specialization and systematic. On one hand, scholars of Mohism, who were living in this period, base on western learning, finishing the continuity and creations of Mohism, without the monotonous former. On the other hand, they fused Mohism and reality together. It made contributions on the western propagation, tradition criticism, inhabitant enlightenment and custom alteration. While an inappropriate utilize obstruct the research. The essence of Mohism had been covered. In conclusion, Mohism is an essential part of Chinese modern academic and a catalyst of tradition. Mohism have deep influence on society progress. All of these take shape the origin of modern Mohism researching. As a result, Chinese traditional as a fertile mine,, as a fertile mine, is the fundamental of multiplication. The marrow of Mohism is not the original Western; however it can connect with Western. Chinese tradition culture can flourish in the sphere of learning over the world.