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Zhang Binglin, Help Overcome National Culture To Compare To The Thought

Posted on:2013-09-15Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:F H SunFull Text:PDF
GTID:1225330395953052Subject:Chinese literature and culture
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Zhang Taiyan and Lian Heng, famous scholars and patriots of modern and contemporary China on both the sides of the Taiwan Straits, have made a significant contribution in many common areas such as Confucianism, history, language, journalism (editor),etc, enjoying great prestige at home and abroad. Having deep affection, they advocated and supported each other in the cause of sorting out, building and disseminating the China national culture. It was more obvious that encouraged and inspired by zhang, Lian was the classical example of the ideological and cultural exchanges on both sides of the Straits from contemporary times.Faced with the serious crisis of the national culture by the "Special academic destruction of traditional Chinese learning from the West" Zhang and Lian gave themselves the airs of "the masses of the people left behind by last dynasty" in China. Having the feelings of the Chinese intellectuals to save the world that "suffering the times of a national decline, but do not forget administering the country and establishing the character, meritorious service and a speech, they inherited and carried forward the "Spring and Autumn justice" such as "re-saved the destroyed countries and cultures, kept the severed countries and cultures going on, hoping the continuation of a line for the Chinese nation and culture. Confronting the surging wave of "modernization", Lian Heng focus on absorbing the strength, wisdom and courage to deal with the deadlock and crisis from traditional ideology and culture in China, especially the Confucian "orthodox" ideology and culture, but also timely complied with the the trend of the day—"Western powers gradually flowing into the East, communicating with each other among countries, the trend of intersection between the East and the West can not be stopped", showing the Broad vision and breadth of mind. Zhang Taiyan thought it otherwise. It was impossible to save the world by depending on traditional Confucianism alone, but paying more attention to basing on "the root of a grand place"(Yan Fu’s quotations) of the traditional ideology and culture in China, and on the traditional Chinese thinking and culture of their own nature. For instance, his findings and advocates about the literary and cultural thinking regarding written language as a standard in China as well as Chinese "text type of cultural system"(as distinct from the West,"the language type of cultural system"). Of course, proper digestion and nutrient absorption of Western academic also show the Broad vision and breadth of mind. Zhang and Lian adhered to the unique nature of Chinese culture and the independent value, but relatively speaking, Zhang was more thorough and more comprehensive. It is he who upheld the cultural philosophy of relying on their own instead of others and Zhuang Zi’s the results of the multicultural concept, of "Ten suns rises together, all things in the world are sunny.The national cultural thinking by Zhang Taiyan and Lian Heng not only represents certain common typical characteristics of that era, but also due to the significant difference of many other factors such as their regions, families and individuals, especially the comprehensive and in-depth influence of political, historical, cultural environment on the sides of Taiwan Straits showing a different geographical characteristics. Therefore, the research on the national cultural thinking by Zhang Taiyan and Lian Heng has higher typical significance in times and regions...
Keywords/Search Tags:Zhang Taiyan, Lian Heng, the two sides of Taiwan StraitsChina’s own academic, save the world
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