The Culture Of Heart On Xu Fuguan's Modern Interpretation Of The Chinese Culture Features

With the spread of Western learning to the East and under the influence of European and American culture,modern China witnessed continuous cultural debates. Reflection on the development of traditional culture was an era subject that generations of scholars faced.Spurred by social situation and influenced by both Chinese and western cultures,a group of Modern Neo-Confucians emerged and went from strength to strength.Xu Fuguan stood out among the Modern Neo-Confucians scattering in Hong Kong,Taiwan and abroad after the civil war.His thought and conduct,objective judgments and special perspectives opens the window for later generations to gain a renewed understanding of traditional Chinese culture.Xu Fuguan's modern understanding of Chinese culture is a returning-to-the primitive-innovation effort.The Culture of Heart is considered to be the core part of the Chinese culture features by Xu Fuguan and the key to his Confucianism ideology structure.The thesis starts with the cultural debates in modern china and the background of the Modern Neo-Confucianism and then analyzes the reasons why Xu Fuguan embarked on the road to cultural redemption and his ideological course.The thesis deals with Xu Fuguan's understanding of the essence of culture and sums up the historical evolution,values embodiment and historical significance of his Culture of Heart ideology.The Culture of Heart evolved further into the idealistic school by Lu Xiangshan and Zhu xi of the Song Dynasty.Xu Fuguan believes that moral subjects,intellectual subjects and heart of art were originated from the cultural foundation- heart and embodied the moral,cognitive and artistic values in Chinese culture.The Culture of Heart's modernity lies in the fact that it has salvation effects for the modern human society in science crisis.Moreover.the upholding of human's subjectivity and the ideologies of liberty,democracy and rule of virtue in traditional culture set a new direction for the exploration of traditional Chinese culture and future culture.Even today,the suffering consciousness emerging in the historical evolution of the Culture of Heart and the influence of the Culture of Heart on Chinese intellectuals' character and destiny are of important enlightening significance.