Yan Fu Modern National And Political Qualities Of Thought

Yan Fu is a bourgeois enlightening thinker, philosopher, translator and educator in modern China. His academic interests are of many folds, which cover studies in both the East and the West, in which both western bourgeois enlightening influence and Chinese traditional ideas can be witnessed.The political quality of modern citizens is the core of overall citizen quality and an important phase in the transition from traditional "subjects" to modern "citizens". After the political system reformations attempting to rescue modern China from its doom being frustrated over and over again, the intellectual representing by Yan Fu finally came to the conclusion that there is a close correlation between citizen quality and national prosperity. Therefore, Yan Fu had a thorough investigation on the citizens' political quality of past times and arrived at the conclusion that enhancing the political quality of the Chinese citizens is of the top urgency at the time. By referring to the citizen quality of the West, he made comparisons between the citizen quality of China and that of the West, so as to construct the mode of political quality of modem Chinese citizens. Furthermore, he put forth insightful approaches to how to enhance citizens' political quality.The thesis is made of four parts. The first part starts by analyzing the subjective as well as the objective cause for the formation of Yan Fu's theory of political quality of Chinese citizens in modern times. Based on original material, the second part is the core section, which makes a systematic investigation on Yan Fu's theory of political quality of Chinese citizens in modern times. In addition, it also conducts tentative researches on the basic composition of political quality of modern Chinese citizens, so as to clarify the relationship between the composing factors, such as political perception, ability, psychology, thinking and emotion, of the political quality of modern Chinese citizens. This part also exerts the most difficulty on the writer, since the ideas related to this theory spread among the different parts of Yan Fu's theories, thus hard for summarization and categorization. In the third part the writer summarizes as well as analyzes the approaches to enhancing political quality of modern Chinese citizens. The last part discusses the value of Yan Fu's theory of political quality of citizens to modern society, so as to provide suggestions for the citizens' political quality education of our country at the present day.