Research On The Cultural Personality Of Yang Jiang

On Yang Jiang's Cultural Personality Abstract Based on the concept and research of anthropology about cultural personality,this paper takes Yang Jiang,a typical intellectual of modern China,as a case and combines her life experience and creation to discusses her personality formation and cultural connotation.It is aimed at paying attention to the cultural choice and identity of the modern Chinese intellectuals in the context of the blend of the Chinese and Western cultures as well as their specific expression in individual personality.By analyzing the cultural significance of the Chinese intellectuals' thought and behavior under the modern background,this paper tries to make a beneficial thinking on the fate and future of the Chinese culture when it transforms from a traditional one into a modern one.With the batch of changes happening in the lapse of ages and her individual experience,her cultural personality has shown the following three evolvement stages.Before the founding of the People's Republic of China,with the constant confrontations between Chinese and Western cultures and between new tradition and old one,her independent cultural personality has gradually formed.After experiencing the frequent political campaigns after the founding of the PRC towards the 1980 s,she has also held her personality bottom-line as one intellectual.She regarded everything with equanimity within the Chaotic times for better reflecting the essence of Chinese traditional Taoism.And when she was nearly 100 years old in later years,she has come back to the essence of Confucian thought.She has experienced the ups and downs in the past almost 100 years of China,Her have been deeply impressed by her madding-crowd,obedient and conservative,independent and fearless,detached and open-minded personality characteristics.