Predicament And Embarrassment Of Traditional Sinology In Modern China

The target of study focuses on the education thoughts of Chinese Quintessence School. Before the Revolution of 1911, Quintessence School put forward the thoughts of'Stimulation Nationalism from Essence of China', held the national studies society, excavated the traditional stories, claimed to explicate the nationalism, spread the patriotisms, and played the very important significance in advocacy of revolution and resistance the effects of Westernization. After the victory of the Revolution of 1911, Quintessence School separated because of different views in politics and traditional culture, they advocated the elites education of'Chinese Renaissance'and countered to the development of society, became one sect of the cultural conservatisms gradually, hampered the social progress and modernization of education during the 1920s and 1930s. With the popularization and scientific movement in education, their thoughts were fading from the sights of Chinese.Quintessence School requested that the education should be based on the traditional culture and education of China, they believed that a new nation could be founded after the traditional sinology was protected and promoted; they put a thought of'Traditional Sinology is the soul of China'and regarded it as the power origination of Chinese. On the base of it, they tried to rebuild a dreamful education system to recreate the order of China education, and raised an idea of Sinology School to reconstruct the traditional sinology.During the process of reconstruct the traditional sinology, they requested the teachers should be profound and not limit one school or one theory in traditional culture of China, asked the teachers to study more and know how to use properly. From the views of emphasis sinology and belittling the Western learning, they explained the relationship between sinology and Western learning, and they wanted to construct a curriculum to connect the Confucian classics and the historiography. By this means, they explored how to write and compose the new style sinology textbooks.Quintessence School was a very special group in modern China, therefore their thoughts should be different from others:they had double missions, on the one side they had the burden of rebuild a new country, on the other side they had the responsibility of reconstruction the traditional sinology, so they bewildered what they did; they tried to reform the education of China, but they had no clear consciousness about Western studies; they put the thought of'Traditional Sinology save China', but it continued the views of'the medium body west use'in fact indeed. Their thoughts and hardworking of saving education of China viewed the predicament and embarrassment in reforming education in modern China, propelled the sinology education in modern China, laid the strong basic of academic studies and education of tradition China, became the pioneers of these work in modern China. But they were lack of theoretical and methodological construction, so their conservative thoughts always represented the characterization of rejections when they were exploring the way-out of China education, finally they became the spokesmen of traditional education, and they were destined not to fulfill the task of discard the old ways of life in favor of the new.Traditional sinology are still nourishing spirits of human beings. The essence and core of the traditional sinology should be relearned, re-regularized and re-digested, and dispel the power of discourse of Western Centered. Nowadays the experiences from Quintessence School have great enlightenments in carrying on the sinology education in China with the fast step of the globalization and economic integration.