Summarized Chen Xiying Who Is A Lonely Liberalist

From the end of 19 century to 20 centuries middle, in China, disasterand hope, poverty and freedom were coexistence. Various current of thought at that timelike rising winds and surging clouds. Liberalism was particular because it's leader werefamous Hu Shi and some professors who teached in Peking and Tsinghua Universityafter they had studied in America and England. In the beginning there were more andmore young people following them.But at last,the young people abandonedthem.Liberalism failed in China. Jerome B. Grieder analyze its failure from the angle ofsociology of original. The reason which the liberalism is in the Chinese failure isn'tbecause the liberalist didn't hold tight the opportunity provided for them, but becausethey can't create the opportunity that they need. In the time, China was surrounded byconfusion. Liberalism need order.It request there are same value standard in society.However, in China the value standard didn't exist,at the same time liberalism didn'tprovide any means which can produce this value standard. The China's life formed byforce,hovever, the base of liberalism is sense. In a word, liberalism failed in Chinabecause the Chinese's life were inundated with violence and revolution,but liberlismcannot provide any polutions for important problems about violence and revolution.Before liberation the whole China had belonged to semicolonial and semi-feudalsociety.This country and her people were suffering loss and sustaining injury. Peopleinitiated ceaseless nationalism and furious political battle. Face this circumstance, theflower of freedom lost cultural soil. The soil cannot give peaceful and steadydevelopment for liberalism,on the contrary, it can provide opportunity for thedevelopment of extreme activism and stubborn conservatism.This is exactly a rootreason that the liberalism atrophy over a long period of time, or so reel, can't stand firma heel in China.Chen Xiying's fate was joined tightly with liberalism. Someone said that a realintellectual is an undertaker of tragic fate. The double tragedy about historical andindividual had gone with all along him. Refer to liberalism, people first bring to mindthe celebrity such as Hushi,Cai Yuanpei,Yin Guanghai and there are more and morepeople studying their thought and literatures. Chen Xiying such of liberalism edge person, but no man ask about. Although he is friend with Hu Shi and Xu Zhimo and heis full of knowledge, at that time and now,He is just"gentleman" that people only havewritten him lightly. As his works,this text tries to analyze to his social cultural thought,value and his attitude to revolution, and find the inside source of tragedy destiny.Through the destiny of lonely liberalist consider destiny of liberalism and liberalist atChina. Chen Xiying Infatuated with in the material civilization and spiritual civilizationwith west. He acceptted Euro-American liberalism thought, always hold up critical anddependent spirit in culture and policy,.He claimed to the person's literature and thebeautiful literature. However, in the radical age,his neutral and justice were called bythe satirize for"gentleman".Because of standing wrong brigade, he was abandonned bythe current, he is also gloomy to back to guard from the literary circles. Face the thingdesire of today the society of the crosscurrent, face a fickleness and stress theeducational circles of economic performance, We can not help thinking of at thebeginning of 20 centuries liberalist for pursuing a keeping of freedom, they doknowledge dependably earnest,think of gentlemen like Chen Xiying.Now, image and function of knowledge member are being queried by the commonpublic's controversy. People turned to the back.They found in the beginning of 20century there were some knowledge members who had China traditional knowledgemembers'spirit and western democracy,freedom and social responsibility. The liberalistof China was real to attain"know it not,can be but is it". Face a politics of corruption,have no the social order and have no ground freedom of ages, they insisted to beliberalism who only can do things in the natural and well-ordered society. Among ofthem,he is the gentleman in the Confucius ideal:"Resolute and firm,silent up tomorality ";he is also the representative of British gentleman civilization.Certainly, his"gentleman" didn't resolve to meal's problem at the great majority person at thesemi-colony and semi-feudal China.Furthermore,there had few opportunity foreducating for Chinese. His ideal and activity are immature and unpopular.Reality alsodrew an exclamation mark by the tragedy one who give this lonely liberalist.