Analysis Of The Oriental-western Cultures Discussion Between Du Yaquan And Chen Duxiu During The May4th Moment

The May Fourth moment is a very important period in the history of modernChinese, and Chinese thought and culture are also very active at this stage. For thecare of the future of modern Chinese culture, Du Yaquan And Chen Duxiu had stageda intense controversy. This controversy arouses peoples’ concern about the differenceof East-West cultural and makes a deeper knowledge to west cultural.This controversy was not took attention in research, but it had deep historic andrealistic significance. In this controversy, Du Yaquan and Chen Duxiu elaborated theirviewpoint of the difference of East-West cultural and showed clearly attitude,respectively. Du and Chen had get the support of Zhang Shizhao and Li Dazhaorespective which pull this controversy into intelligentsia stratum. Moreover, thiscontroversy lead to a bigger controversy about old-new ideology which had a debateabout “new” and “old” question of culture. Although the controversy ended with thewon of Chen Duxiu, through it we can find the difference of modern Chinese culturetowards “replace” and “harmony”, obviously.This controversy, which promoted the spread of Western culture in China, beganthe modern transformation of the Chinese culture and deepened people’s thinking onthe East-West cultural relations and dialectical unity between nationality and times ofculture. At the same time explores the important issue that the modern transformationof Chinese traditional culture.Relive this history and revisit the topic raised by this debate in the transitionperiod of contemporary culture, we can find that we have been exploring this topic getinvolved in the debate all the time and still to be resolved. Moreover, the debate ofculture’s nationality and epochal character and the issue of the mastery of traditionalculture and Western culture still have a reference on the transformation ofcontemporary Chinese culture. Chen Duxiu’s the tendency of “overkill” in the debateto be our reflection and thinking. Therefore, the exploration of centennial culturaltransformation still happiness of the search up and down.This paper, take the Du Yaquan and Chen Duxiu’s controversy about Eastern andWestern Culture as the staring point, attempt to clarify the background, content andmeaning of the modern first large-scale cultural debate. And rationalize the propertydifferences between east and west culture and the way of modern Chinese culture.Furthermore, take the two-sided standpoint of the philosophy of materialism to treatquestion and try hard to evaluate Du Yaquan and Chen Duxiu objective. And notagreed with the viewpoint of “praise Chen and belittle Du”, believe that we should getrid of the non-historic tendency and give the historical person a practical and realisticevaluate.