1949～1998: Study On The Transformation Of Humanities Of Universities In China

There were two tides for the argumentation on humanistic spirit and the education of cultural diathesis for undergraduate in the 1990s. It indicates the crisis of humanities in china, it is also endeavor of reconstructing humanities by china's intellectual. There are three aspects of workings about humanities in china: methodology of humanities; tradition of humanistic spirit; humanistic education and science education. From two angles of education and learning of humanities, the thesis approaches transformation of humanities in china's universities from 1949 to 1999, its aim for discovering attribute of humanities and for helpfulness for realism and future.It is a"decrease—distortion—revival—deepening"course for Humanities in china's universities in the past 50 years: decrease period from 1949 to 1966; distortion period from 1966 to 1976; revival period from 1976 to 1989; deepening period from1990 to1998. This course opens out two roles of Humanities: base of humanistic education and carrier of nation's spirit. The former show its form; the latter display its nature; the former shows its adaptable side to ideology, the latter displays its critical side to ideology. Of course, they are undivided in realism. Strengthening question sense in Humanistic study and reconstructing critical spirit of intellectual should be rational choice and important duty of Chinese intellectual at present.