Modernity And The Change Of Identity Of Chinese Intellectuals

Intellectuals play an extremely important role in the history of development, especiallyin the process of the change intellectuals transfer from traditional to modern intellectuals.Intellectuals gradually realize their independence and began to reflect on their self-identity,realize their self awareness and their responsibility. Since the opium war, intellectuals actedas the maintainer of the feudal society、the leader of the social change、practitioners of socialrevolution and the builders of the socialism. In this process, intellectuals gradually maketheir identity independence dream come true and become independent intellectuals in the newera.The change of the self-identity of intellectuals shows that China has get rid of ignoranceand fool and begin to show respect to science and logic. It reflects that modernization hasmaked a big change in ideology and culture. The most important result of modernization isthat it makes person realize themselves and their responsibility to the nation, to their people.So it will encourage the intellectuals do more contribution to the development of knowledgebased economy, it will also makes science and logic remove ignorance in their mind. Butnothing if perfect, there are a lot of problems in intellectuals’ self-identity. However if wewant all of these problems to be solved,we should observe them in a modernity view. Sothere is a long way for us to have a research on intellectuals’ self-identity.The change of the identity of intellectual is brought about by modernization, it is aprocess that a people follows the society to make change. It is not just a awareness of a lonelyperson, but a beginning of respecting and understanding that a society show to a individual.It will push forward the history and it is a very important change in thinking and culture.