The Liberalism Thought And Literature Works Of Chu Anping

Liberalism movement was at its high tide from 1930s to 1940s in China. Chu Anping was influenced by Liberalism trend of thought in literature and art and began to display his talent for the first time. In especial Chu obtained considerable success on essay works and was praised by Xu Zhimo and Liang Shiqiu who was the leaders of Crescent School. At that time Chu Anping was called'rising star of Crescent School'. From 1936 on, Chu Anping turned to political issues from literature works. After the War of Resistance against Japan, another upheaval was rising in China. At that point, most liberalists wrote the articles to discuss political problems except for few of them joined or founded parties. Chu Anping was one of the most influential and radical among them.This study mainly focuses on Chu Anping's inchoate literature, Objective and Observation in the span from 1928 in which he attended Kuanghua University to 1949 in which the People's Republic of China was established. This study analyses Chu Anping's liberalism ideas'formation and how it influenced his political liberalism through his inchoate literature, researches the process and sequence of thought of Chu Anping's radical articles of political affairs, proclaims his amendment, aspiring and disillusion in the specific period and describes the destiny of Liberalism in China and its value nowadays.This thesis is divided into 5 chapters.Chapter 1 expounds the meaning, method and content of this study, defines the basic concept, origin and history of Liberalism. It also redefines and partitions the liberalism's developing process of almost hundreds of years and the western liberalism as a series of similar conceptions. It is divided into three stages: the Classical Liberalism, the New Liberalism and New Classical Liberalism. And the former research achievements have been sorted by the numbers and summed up in this chapter.In chapter 2, it analyses Chu Anping's inchoate literature on three aspects that the inner world of the heart's expressing, criticizing the society and the change of his pursuing ideal, aesthetic temperament and interest and artistic style, expounds Crescent School's Liberalism style in his literature works, discusses his liberalism ideas'generation and development under the influence of the thought of Individual liberation and education of democracy and freedom that he accepted in Kuanghua University and the Crescent Society and famous thinker of Liberalism such as Hu Shi and Xu Zhimo. It points out that his literature thought is an important constituent part of his Liberalism thought, promulgates the vital function of literature works in his growing up to be a liberalistic political writer, discusses the inevitability that his literary communicating from his immediate experience of social life would bring out his rational communicating of Liberalism thought.Chapter 3 explores the resource of Chu Anping's liberalism ideas. The New Liberalism especially Laski's Democrat Socialism is its theory resource. At the same time, Chinese liberalism tradition that Yan Fu and Hu Shi was the representative also affected Chu's ideas. In addition, French liberalism didacticism which was influenced by French Revolution was another important resource of the radical articles of political affairs.Chapter 4 analyses and evaluates Chu Anping's journalistic work. As a youngster of Liberalism in China, he carried his work from 1930s when the War of Resistance against Japan began to 1949 in which the People's Republic of China was established and his main work was editing Objective and Observation as chief editor. It describes and analyses his liberalistic journalism thought's developing, the attitude's transforming towards the Kuomintang, the Communist Party, the United States and the Soviet Union and his supporting student movement.Chapter 5 evaluates Chu Anping's radical liberalism ideas and gives several factors of his radical feature. First, the idea conflict between liberalism and democratic politics. Second, absence of traditional culture led to radicalization of Constructivism and Rationalism. Third, identity crisis and changes is Chu's ideas'realistic foundation. Thinking of the ages, firstly, liberalism was communicated as a weapon to strengthen China. National crisis was the reason of Modern China's Radicalization. And on the other hand, it is the inner conflict which Traditional Liberalism's communicating in China was not at its time that resulted in Radicalization. This chapter explores the destiny and prospect of Liberalism in China through rethinking Chu Anping's rational thought profoundly and discusses whether there's liberalistic tradition in Chinese culture and the feasibility that rational Liberalism could evolve in China. In addition, this chapter expounds the cultural value and social meaning of Liberalism. At last, this study draws the conclusion that the social change in modern China presented a certain appearance of radicalism in the field of not only thought and culture but also politics and economy. It has three reasons. The first one is China realistic society's evolution. The second one is Liberalism's communicating's twisting in the time and the space. The third one is Chinese liberalists'limiting. Chu Anping's retreating from reality means the end of Chinese radical Liberalism ideological trend. The consequence that the Liberalism brought to China was complicated.Through over the radical and revolutionary history that was critiqued and negated by devastating that we come to know that the radical political movement that as didacticism psychology'attempted to resolve problems with ideas and culture'is short of constructive and progressive. Only if insisting in peaceable rationalism that western liberalism could amalgamate with Chinese traditional culture.