The Eastern Miscellany And The First World War

The World Warâ… has produced significant effect to theworld. The huge injury and a series of attack which posed tothe human have been unprecedented hitherto.It made the westworld covered by the desolate atmosphere of "the end of thecentury",at the same time caused some Chinese to put forwardto suspicion and vacillation, who originally were full ofenthusiasm and hope on studying the western culture. After thewar broke out, Chinese asked themselves constantly if this kindof culture which created huge disaster to human was worthstudying. Where would it go? Where would Chinese culture go?The war not only caused the world's political pattern greatchange and economical deterioration, but also caused Chinesethought circle which determine the Chinese culture trend byobserving the world change since modern times great change.This paper selects the comprehensive academic journalsthe Eastern Miscellany which published longest and had extendeffect in modern history as an inspected object, and takes thecontent of the World Warâ… in the Eastern Miscellany as core.It discusses the publication how to report, why to report andwhat effect this kind of report caused to the Chinese thinkers'circle. From this point we can see the social thought and theevolution of culture.The main body of this paper is allotted for four parts:Partâ… is a foreword, introducing the meaning of thissubject, current studying situation and the found of theEastern Miscellany.Partâ…¡elaborates the report of the Eastern Miscellany tothe World Warâ… . The Eastern Miscellany reported in detail the reasons for the outbreak of war, the process of war, the effectsof war, and displaying the World Warâ… comprehensively, which makesthe people have an entire and profound understanding about thewar, further understanding about Western countries, WesternculturePartâ…¢introduces a new view about the Eastern Miscellanyto western Culture after the war. Through the World Warâ… thenations deepened the awareness of Western countries,Westerncivilization and began to treat Western culture rationally andeven criticized the science and the theory of evolution whichWesterners took proud of.Partâ…£mainly analysis new change of Chinese thinkerscircle postwar. The World Warâ… has had tremendous effects tothe Chinese circle of thinkers. With the post-war westerncultural awareness deepened, the concepts of Chinese learningfrom Westerners began to change. One of them was that thepsychology of Chinese people who blindly worship westernculture dispelled day after day. Some intellectuals began tolook for a new way to save China. So China occurredwesternization of anti-traditional doctrine,Marxism Russianethos,Cultural Conservatism existing at the same time.Especially the Cultural Conservatism thought, some of theintellectuals returned rapidly on the basis of thinking overwestern culture and promoted east-west culture reconciliationbased on traditional Chinese culture to save the West andChina's crisis.