Study On Academic Thoughts Of Cai Shang-si

Cai Shang-si (1905-2008.5.20), is a famous thinker and historian who wrote a lot of books in his academic age of 70 years. He is well known for criticizing the Chinese traditional culture, and is one of the rare centenarian scholars in China.In 1905, Cai Shang-si was born in Dehua, Fujian province, who had gone to private school , after secondary school into the twelfth Provincial Yongchun, 1925, after graduation, despite the numerous friends and relatives'opposition, he insisted resolutely to go to Peking to study further. Thanks to Liang Qichao and Wang Guowei etc., who taught Cai, he later on the academic had a significant impact. By the end of the year 1928 due to the influence of the social situation in the north, he had to make a living, hard onward in Nanjing, Shanghai, Wuhan and other places. Cai Shang-si was introduced byCai Yuanpei ,in the second half of 1929, into Shanghai Daxia University of Chinese Studies. This was the beginning of Cai Shang-si teaching at the university. After Cai Shang-si went to Wuhan to teach, coming into contact with Marxism-Leninism, and laid a theoretical foundation through learning. September in 1934 to September in 1935, Cai Shang-si woked in Nanjing Chinese Studies Library searching of ancient the corpus except poems, collected millions of words of intellectual history data for the future, and paved the way for academic research. During the anti-Japanese War, he was rushing for survival, and organized a secret organization "learn and use " encouraging students to be anti-imperialists. It's a feast for the country. During the war of liberation, he stood in the cultural front side of the masses against the KMT who advocated"of the Confucian" ,and his fierce criticism in the community had a widespread influence, so that the KMT had to put attention to him. After the founding of new China, he taught people and stayed in Fudan University, up to his hundred age.Cai Shang-si born in late Qing Dynasty, experienced the 1911 Revolution, fall of the Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China established, the May Fourth Movement, the anti-Japanede War, Liberation War, the establishment of new China, the Cultural Revolution and other major historical events. Rich life experience made him a more profound history experience. And modern times, western culture came into China along with Western imperialist aggression, with the occurrence of severe secondary reaction, with the ups and downs of society. They were intertwined. As a social individual Cai Shang-si naturally could not escape their influence. When he was young, he lived in the remote village of feudal Germany, so he was very much disgusted with all kinds of feudal society. Far away from home to north , combined with living in remote village and the "social education", Cai Shang-si recognize that the traditional feudal ideology did the great harm to China, so he devoted his life in the critique of the feudal tradition of thought, wanted to enlighten the people and promote progress in society.In the long-term of studied the traditional culture, combined with Cai Shang-si's saw and heard, he was very sympathetic to the broad masses of working people, and advanced that live people was more important than dead people, all we do were in order to serve the people wholeheartedly, this is his idea of"all for people"; Cai Shang-si also believed that the reason for the proliferation of the feudal tradition of thought to this, Confucius must take the primary responsibility for it, so he critiqued the Confucius's idea fiercely. He pointed out that the "etiquette" is the core of the idea of Confucius, his economic ideas are unfair, political thoughts are anti-democratic, ethics are barbarous, scholarly ideas are not scientific, and through the lateral and longitudinal studied, he found a grand Critical system; "etiquette" is a very important aspect of Confucianism, and through generations of evolution, during the Song and Ming periods it added to reach the point where the physical and psychological destruction of the working people, for which Cai Shang-si write a book to critique it. These studies have great significance between academic and realworld.Cai Shang-si's scholarship is based on classical literature, history combined with philosophy, promote discussing and creating, attention to the role of the library, writing articles to be refined. During he studied the new theory, he got further studied the materialistic dialectics . He believes that dialectics is a revolutionary and forward moving, comprehensive, detailed analysis of specific issues, connected to each other, opposite and complementary to, establish priorities, exceptional, the relative in the absolute, adaptable, all for people; study History, he thought should be pay attention to present and use the method of class analysis.In summary, study on the academic thought of Cai Shang-si is much needed and necessary. From the perspective of the history of Chinese intellec and culture, Cai Shang-si's study of traditional culture, especially the study of Confucius, which rich the content of thought and cultures'study, to a certain extent promoted the study of the history of intellec and culture; from the perspective of the history of modern Chinese academic, Cai Shang-si is not allowed to bypass, he is unique in the study of Confucius in the academic community, who critique confucius fiercer than contemporary scholars. Although there are some places unreasonable, this does not affect he to be a famous scholar in study of Confucius and status in the history of modern academic. ?...