Modern Intellectuals And Cultural Renewal

In modern times, the whole of Chinese society in the political, economic, cultural, ideological, or deep, or has undergone many changes in the surface layer, and in the process of change accompanied by a corresponding transfer of power. In the ideological field, this power shift reflected the status of traditional culture has been shaken. In particular, the abolition of the imperial examination system, the new education system has trained a large number of floating in society, has a certain level of knowledge of the educated. They lack the kind of scholar-officials and traditional cultures of the fetters of a deep, and no longer have the virtue of the favorable conditions for learning and ability Apprentice. With the improvement of institutions gradually advance the evolution of the intellectuals is also near completion. This is a historical process full of interactive, full of the political situation in which the volatility up and down with the intellectual quest. Ultimately, the political practice of the unsatisfactory, prompting the intellectuals from the culture and explore the root causes of China's backwardness and political failure lies. New Culture Movement in the period marked by the wave of anti-traditional, traditional culture's position in the intellectual minds of many modern intellectuals plummeted, advocate democracy, freedom, equality, fraternity and other Western culture and the spirit of the basic ideas popular in China. To this end, the debate which one is better on the Eastern and Western cultures have occurred, the parties believe the doctrine of intellectuals to save China's downturn, and tried to ideology, culture to start to solve political problems. Debate on the traditional culture of East and West had a huge impact after the founding of a number of thought-reform campaign and the Cultural Revolution, traditional culture is an even greater impact. The decline of traditional culture, cultural renewal placed in front of the intellectuals. Transformation to a modem society in the process of how the succession of traditional culture on Western culture, how to use the different orientation, so that the starting point in the question of intellectuals who parted ways; The politics of ideological extremes are often the cultural reconstruction of the control problem is replaced by ideology.Liang Shu-ming, as the representative of Confucian culture, in Modern Ideological history has been well received. The transformation of the old Confucian elucidate its efforts to Neo-Confucianism, but also for studying the problem in modern cultural reconstruction of a typical case. Liang Shuming's objective evaluation of Western culture, neither overbearing nor servile as well as the strong guardian of traditional culture stubbornly persists, reflecting that he has a grand vision ahead of its time. Building in the countryside, he tried to Neo-Confucianism into the community to Xinmin Germany's efforts to rebuild the proposition that culture is also has practical significance. The development of modem Chinese society has its own twists and turns and change and complexity, and the echoes in the cultural reconstruction of this area, despite the high-profile intellectuals and active for the past which is rarely seen, but in academic thinking are often too late to a real achievements will be involved in the political whirlpool, it is difficult to believe that modern China there is a continuing cultural reconstruction movement. Liang Shuming personal ambitions and efforts by the environmental impact of such a large lot, his setbacks and failures, it is cultural reconstruction itself is a reflection on obstacles encountered.