The Study Of Han Shaogong's Reflection On Modernity

The problem of modernity is a hot spot which China's academic and intellectual community has pay close attention to,it decides the modern society as the fundamental ideas.Modernity includes political,economic,social and cultural aspects of social modernity,also contains the aesthetic modernity which question the social modernity from the cultural level.Since stepped into the literary world,Han Shaogong have been always seizing the development of the era and society's changes,adhering to spirit of intellectuals to intervene the reality and criticize the history,carrying on a beneficial thinking and exploration of China's modernity question.Han Shaogong's reflection of modernity includes three aspects: political reflection,cultural reflection and social criticism.Han Shaogong's reflection on modern political ideology mainly talks about Han Shaogong's thinking toward revolution,democracy and nationalism.Han Shaogong transcends the simple thinking of demonizing the revolutionary,penetrating into the specific historical situation to show the interaction and entanglement of human nature and revolution,criticizing the historical disaster while affirming its ideal pursuit of equality and justice.Han Shaogong's theoretical discussion of democracy and nationalism is based on the establishment of a universal and orderly national and international order.He regards fairness and justice as the top priority of the pursuit of modernity of a nation-state.Han Shaogong's social criticism is mainly aimed at the degeneration of human nature,consumerism,and class differentiation based on consumer symbols in the process of modernization.Morality and ideals are the spiritual coordinates of Han Shaogong,and the sustained deterioration of human crisis in the context of modernity has led Han Shaogong to question the modernization mode of economic development and put forward a new idea of "balance between nature and civilization" for modern development.In Han Shaogong's mind,the ideal modernization means universal equality,freedom and happiness between people,and "the modernization of the Chinese people."Han Shaogong's cultural reflection involves both traditional and modern,modern mass culture and folk culture.In the period of "roots seeking literature",Han Shaogong's works are entangled with the enlightenment discourse of modernity and the emotional identity of traditional culture.Since the 1990 s,Han Shaogong's reflection on modernity gained a more prominent view.He begun to take a tolerant,diversified view to explore the value of the traditional culture and folk culture,creatively made use of traditional culture resources.At the same time,Han Shaogong transfered his critical direction to the modern culture(especially the popular culture),takes a thorough critical position to the vulgarization and homogenization of the modern culture,sticks to culture with soul and faith.Han Shaogong's reflection on modernity has experienced a process from brewing,germination to clearity and maturity.With the negative influence of modernity,Han Shaogong's criticism of modern civilization has become increasingly firm and intense,and gernerated a kind of nostalgia and attachment mood to the countryside..Han Shaogong's countryside recurrence is an attempt to resist alienation,does not mean anti-modernization,but brought the rational elements of traditional agricultural civilization into the framework of modernity,to correct the social modernity which falled into the instrumental rational track.