Change And Intermediation: Towards A Culture Of The Times And The National Character Of Unity

In modern times, western imperialist powers had proposed the sharpchallenge to the existence of Chinese nation. At the moment of saving thenation from subjugation and ensuring its survival, what was theprosperous and strong secret of the west world? How to make the modernscience develop in China in order to change the weak and poor situation?These questions had caused a lot of people's thinking .Yan Fu and Hu Shiwere two among them . They all admitted that the settlement of Chineseproblem must proceed with ideology and culture , especially push on themodernity and scientific renewal to the traditional methodology. Inseeking the course of that , the methodology of positivism introducedfrom the West and the traditional methodology of China had beencompared and distinguished . They all had tried to blend Chinese andWestern methodology. The difference between them lied in differentdegree of conscientious of it. They could not really effectively carry onmodernity and scientific renewal to the traditional culture (this papertakes methodology as an example ) because of their unique cultural view,which did not realize that national characteristics and features of times aretwo unified aspects of certain culture.