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Cultural Controversy During The May Fourth New Culture Movement And The Cultural Self-awareness In Modern China

Posted on:2015-09-16Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y L WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2285330431459054Subject:Chinese Communist Party
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"Cultural consciousness" refers to rational thinking and creative development of culture, it is conscious reflection and enhance the national spirit. It requires cultural subjects for a deep cultural awareness and to grasp its development path and development law,while bearing the historical responsibility for cultural development, to achieve cultural "self-awareness, self-reflection, self-created" Since entering the modern society in1840, China was in national crisis-ridden and began the process of learning from the West. Learning from the West Westernization Movement artifacts technology to learn from the West Hundred Days Reform political system and then to learn from the West Fourth Movement ideology and culture, Chinese intellectuals continue to examine the role of culture status and thinking the way out of the Chinese culture.During the May Fourth Movement, the conservative intellectuals such as Yaquan Du and Shuming Liang and the radical intellectuals such as Duxiu Chen and Dazhao Li expand a debate about Chinese traditional culture and modern western culture. On location and nature of culture, similarities and differences between Eastern and Western cultures comparative merits of Eastern and Western cultures can reconcile development, the development direction of Chinese culture and law, both sides issue such intense debate, hoping solve the problem of finding modern Chinese society from a cultural perspective. Both of them reflect the cultural consciousness. Party insisted on promoting the advantages of traditional culture. Reconcile Chinese and Western cultures, and the other advocates a comprehensive study of Western culture. Part of the intellectuals began to accept Marxism under the guidance in of cultural consciousness.This paper attempts to analyze the ideological trajectory of modern Chinese intellectuals about cultural conscious, and the historical experience of modern Chinese culture, it also provides a reference for the current culture building of China.
Keywords/Search Tags:Cultural debate, Westernization, cultural harmony, Cultural consciousness, Marxism
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