Liberal School Response To "National Revival Movement"

National revival is the goal that lofty ideals try their best to pursue since modern times. National revival trend is born with the notion of a nation, springing up with the apprehension of national decline and thriving with the introduction of nationalism thought in the late Qing dynasty. After the Mukden Incident, the national revival trend inspired the salvation enthusiasm of whole nation. The determination and confidence that our nation will perk up is all-time high. The Nanjing National Government, led by the Kuomintang (KMT)caught people’s social psychology, combining this word national revival with his comments, launched a huge and informative National Revival Movement. National Revival Movement became a kind of social movement that mobilized the whole nation under the advocate of the national government. This movement involves many aspects such as politics, economy, culture and society and so on. Each level has its specific meaning. The main performance in political level is that the national government wants to set up a party for the center with Chiang kai-shek leader dictatorship; economic level is that the National Economic Construction Movement which the national government advocates; cultural level is the Chinese Native Culture Construction; Social life level is New Culture Movement.At the same time, the liberal school establishes independent review magazine, they comment on social issues in the spirit of independent. They can’t make no response obviously, for the National Revival Movement that the national government launched. And they respond not directly to comment on the movement itself, but by taking the form of controversy, advice and debunk aiming at the specific level of the movement.For political content of National Revival Movement, liberal school responds mainly by taking the form of debate. National government put forward to implement a party leader, dictatorship. Liberal school has a different of opinion for internal calamity under the direction of political China way. Some people who show sympathy for the national government deem that we should establish a strong government, an authoritarian politics. And the theory of politics is different from the authoritarian government of "new dictatorship"; Some people think that the concessions to dictatorship now will eventually go back to old-style autocracy, and therefore should be put into effect in the country’s political democracy. The debate of "Democracy and dictatorship" seems between liberal school, but it points to the social issues of the political center. Their response reflects the tangle of liberal school on the values of democracy and freedom and national complex of the national.For economic content of National Revival Movement, liberal school responds mainly by taking the form of suggestion. National government put forward movement of the National Economy Construction, and its content includes almost every aspect of economic life. For the agricultural, industrial and financial problems, such as large level, liberal school will be a response. Overall, the liberal school for the national government policy haven’t come up with a lot of objection. Just in the concrete implementation of the above, there will be many detailed advice. That is to say, liberal school agree with the national government’s deed in the economic level and make positive suggestions for them. The key reason is that the policy of the national government’s behavior does not touch the bottom line of their values and to cater to their national sentiment.For cultural content of National Revival Movement, liberal school responds mainly by taking the form of reject. To revive the nation must restore national assertiveness firstly, and it is the consensus of the whole society at that time. As for how to restore national assertiveness, the national government offers to the worship of Confucius and Chinese Native Culture Construction Movement. Liberal school advocates new culture, against the old culture since the New Culture Movement. In the face of the old cultural counter current, their nature is spare no effort to resist. The formation of self-efficacy, not blindly to cling to the old culture, but to profoundly reflect on China’s own culture, from the reflection to see the way out of Chinese culture. During this period, "faith and reflection" controversy have reflected Liberal school’s thoughts and their opinion of the Chinese culture. The most typical example is the liberal school’s attitude of the national government to advocate reading the bible. In culture aspect, the policies and actions of the national government are not only in conformity with the liberal school, but also in conflict with the values they insist on and more do not meet their minds all the imagination for China’s future cultural way.For the New Culture Movement on the level of social life, the liberal school don’t have a lot of attention. Such a daily behavior did the standardization of the movement involved that there is nothing worthy of praise or criticism in the liberal school view. More important is the movement does not get much practical effect.Here is no longer worth studying after slogans and dead letters.Liberal school for the national government launched a national revival, the attitude is respectively:political level is divided,economic level is to support basically, cultural level is to resist, social life level is non-committal.