Study On The Travel Records Of Northwest China By The Intellectual Elites During The Republican Period

During the Republican period of China,there were a lot of internal and external crises.There were also border crisis and the crisis of Japanese invasion of China.So the importance of the northwest region was more prominent.More and more people paid close attention to the northwest.With the call for the development of the northwest rising,the northwest investigations became an upsurge.The official investigations organized by the government,the investigations of social groups and individual investigation activities had sprung up.Many intellectuals entered the northwest region and wrote while traveling.They were concerned about the northwest society and its problems.On this basis,they assembled the northwest travel notes.They discussed the countermeasures with their own strengths and put forward opinions.They tried to make a contribution to the development of the northwest region and social progress.There are many people visited the northwest during the Republican period of China.This paper focuses on the Northwest Travel Notes Anthology.The main research content is the northwest travel notes of some intellectual elites in the period of the Republic of China,and this paper mainly discusses the trip of the intellectual elites to the northwest and the problems of the elites concerned.First of all,under the background of the increasing crisis at home and abroad,because the importance of historical origin and strategic position,northwest of China has attracted much attention.So it is necessary to investigate the northwest.Secondly,it briefly describes the general situation of the northwest investigation activities in the Republic of China.By listing the representatives of the northwest investigation activities at that time,and analyzing the subjective motivations of their trip to the northwest,we can learn about the author’s situation of the northwest travelogues.Through sorting out the travel routes and difficulties on the way,we can understand the basic process of the northwest investigation activities and the writing process of the northwest travel notes.Thirdly,this paper focuses on the problems that many investigators found and concerned after entering the northwest.That is the main recorded contents of the northwest travelogue.This part mainly discusses people’s livelihood,economy and education.In northwest China,people are living in poverty,women need to be liberated,and opium is forbidden repeatedly.The investigators analyzed the causes of these problems from various aspects and put forward reasonable suggestions for improvement.In addition,they analyzed the factors restricting the economic development of northwest China from four aspects of transportation,resources,industry and ecology.At the same time,they also made corresponding suggestions for the problems existing in the development of education in northwest China.Finally,basing on the trip to the northwest and the travel notes written by the intellectual elites,this part discusses their impacts.The appearance of the northwest travel notes undoubtedly shows the real picture of the northwest to the Chinese people,thus deepening the outside world’s understanding of the northwest,and building the public opinion for the development of the northwest.The propaganda and suggestions during the northwest investigations have accelerated the civilization of northwest China to a certain extent.It also promotes the government to formulate reasonable policies.Under the background of social transformation,it accelerates the modernization process of northwest China.