Between Traditional Culture And Western Culture: Analysis Of "Book Of Datong"

KangYouwei's book of Datong integrated with Chinese and Western thought and built a blueprint for an ideal society at the time of national calamity. Based on the Book of Datong, to analyze the heritage and development between the vision that described in the book of Datong and the ideal society that our ancestors described in history, what were described in the Datong book had what kind of different, less than and beyond the ideal society department from the eyes of today. Revealed the way that KangYouwei completed the book of Datong and the way KangYouwei achieved the transformation and integration between traditional thought and Western thought. This is the purpose of writing this article.Chinese traditional thought and Western thought began the first really cultural collision in China's modern period. In the turbulent years of China's modern period, have emerged so much of intellectuals find out country's way out. As a result of the impact of western thought, KangYouwei, like many scholars to actively study the West, study of the way of powerful, to develop their own country. In modern society, we still face the problem of development, and the question of East-West cultural exchange. More and more international activities take places, and we are still in the East-West cultural under the influence of the double to continue the pace of development. Face the same problem, we need to study KangYouwei's book of Datong, the state of writing and writing background, trying to inspire us in today's life. This is the meaning of writing this article. KangYouwei painted a picture of an ideal Datong society at his book of Datong, which is full of the shadow of the integration of Chinese and Western thought. As can be seen, selected of the West are sensible idea consider, for the Chinese traditional culture, which is selected in emotionally driven to do. At the first, I will analyze the differences between the ideal society that KangYouwei described and the traditional ideal social; Secondly, I will analyze the test of book of Datong finding out the way of integration and development between Chinese and Western culture.Article is to reveal the conclusions that the contents of book of Datong were selection and integration about Chinese and Western cultures by KangYouwei in his own emotional and rational. Facing with strong western society, KangYouwei studied western culture, studied the causes of western powers. Through the study, KangYouwei recognize and accept the value of western thought. From a rational point of view, he considered we should accept and rebuild western thought in order to save the country. At the same time, more than two thousand years of traditional Chinese culture deep-rooted in the idea, KangYouwei also has very deep understanding about traditional. He can not be divorced from the traditional emotionally. Under the both influence, book of Datong filled with new ideas reformed and integrated of the Chinese culture and the West culture by KangYouwei.