Liang Qichao National Transformation And Its Modern Values

Remolding Chinese national character which is dealing with the modernization of man is a crucial step for a traditional society to change into modernized one. With the step of change advancing, today is seeing its important trend to man's modernization. So, there is undoubtedly practical significance to recall and reconsider the trend of thought of remolding Chinese national character in modem times.Science modem times, the continual failures to save our nation by introducing advanced science and technology from the West and changing political system make the awaking Chinese people realize that Chinese people trained by the traditional culture are not modernized men. It has its important theoretical significance in enriching the studying of Liang Qichao.This paper consists of five chapters. In the first part, the paper introduces the origin of the thought. The thought of making people fresh of Liang Qichao had an expanding process from feudalist thought to the capitalist thought. In the second part, Liang Qichao considered that our country could be saved only by doing enlightenment work to the nation to overcome their old ways of thinking and making them be a fresh people capitalist new morals and new thought. In the third part, after self-questioning the traditional national spirits and confirming the national quality of foreign country, Liang Qichao modeled a image of fresh people: First, equality and freedom is the feature at the core of the freshen people. Second, being eager to make progress and taking a risk is the distinct characteristics of the fresh people. Third, benefit the group and patriotism is the moral standard of the fresh people. Liang Qichao hoped the fresh people to replace the traditional national, saving the nation. It's the core of this paper. In the fourth part, the paper inquires the ways to accomplish the fresh people. In the last part, the paper emphasizes fully that our dialectical attitude toward the thought of making people fresh is rejecting the dross and assimilating the essence. On the one hand, is has the guiding use in how to treat the relation between the Chinese traditional culture and modernize, how to heighten the moral level to advance the social development...