The Return Of Alien Floating Gull

Weng Wenhao is a famous geologist and geographer in modern China,and also an representative of scholar that turns to politics.He not only obtained Xiucai status in Qing Dynasty,but also achieved geology doctor in University of Leuven,which helps him made great contribution to geological construction of China.But in 1930s,China suffered from domestic trouble and foreign invasion,the age urged him to convert from scholar to politician.Through Weng Wenhao's politician career,the most central and typical work was in National Resources Commission.In this institute,a number of intellectuals who embraced a belied that saving China with industry utilized the knowledge they learned from abroad to domestic construction.It's the era's choice that made him a politician,because the power of individuals cannot break the obstacles of society,and only by resorting to politics can it help to fulfill his mission.The essay takes Weng Wenhao as an example,to elucidate the choices and practices of intellectuals.Firstly,it starts with Weng Wenhao's academic background,explaining his conversion from Xiucai to Doctor of Leuven,and his contribution to China in geology after he returned to home.He combined scientific spirits of West with traditional East civilization ingeniously,a typical feature of the transition era.The epoch gave him this responsibility,and he didn't disappoint it,which made him famous at home and abroad,that laid foundations to his entrance into officialdom.In 1930s,an era surrounded by danger and crisis,his sense of mission and responsibility made him cannot focus on scholar studies but to get into political circles.And the gratitude and salvation of Chiang Kai-shek accelerated his decision to involve in officialdom.Finally,the essay focus on managing and organizing National Resources Commission to represent how intellectuals like Weng Wenhao did to save modern China.The intellectuals who worked at National Resource Commission were full of enthusiasm and truly want to made difference,they were different from the officials of Kuomingtang Government.The institute made by intellectuals had unique working mode,managing style and mental altitude,which infused fresh air into foul Kuomingtang environment.But the effect of intellectuals was limited,through saving country with their knowledge must encounter restriction from society.The essay focuses on choices and practices Weng Wenhao made in saving China to discuss how can intellectuals to solve problems by using knowledge and combining reality.The essay considers that knowledge cannot equal to actuality,there is complicated interference between individuals and society,or,knowledge can only effect in specific social status.The practical use depends on social acceptance firstly,and individual adaptive capacity also have great importance.It is the basic guarantee of success when individual accords with social status.