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1. Post-WWI Cultural Reflections: New Humanism
and the School of Xueheng ( 學衡派 )
--an example of east-west cultural interaction
Liu Haolin
Yang Shengyu
2. A brief introduction
WWI
Disappointment towards the western culture
West: turn to the east New
Humanism
East: rethink how to learn from the west
Xueheng
10. Problems
Scientism
Francis Bacon
Machine
Social Darvinism
Arms race
Romanticism
Jean J. Rousseau
Imagination
No reality
SAD (Self-assured destruction)
11. Solutions
The Law of
humanities
Standard
Positive and empirical
Conventions
Irving Babbitt, 1865-1933
12. Learn from Confucianism
Propriety(decorum)
vs. nature impulse
Principle of the Golden
Means
vs. extreme
Self-restraint
義
中庸
克己
A new Western culture
13. III. Xueheng
-Answering problems faced by China
Background
New Culture Movement:
the radical westernization of China
Shock brought by the WWI
New Humanism, Irving Babbitt ( 白璧德 ), and his Harvard
students
14. Xueheng-Major characteristics
Aim: Chinese culture harmonizes with the west &
the revival of Chinese civilization
Cultural beliefs:
a. the unity of world cultures
b. the unity of history and present
c. the principle of choice in cultural development
15. Xueheng-Major characteristics
Attitudes towards Chinese and western cultures
a. Chinese culture is unique and advanced which Chinese
people should be proud of.
b. Chinese culture and western culture share similarities &
should be equal.
c. establish an independent new national culture on the
basis of mixing Chinese and western cultures
16. How to learn from the west
-Xueheng and New Culture Movement
Xueheng New Culture
Movement
Cause of WWI Weakness of
western culture
French civilization vs.
German Militarism
Relation between
old and new culture
Modern interpretation
of classics
Incompatible
Ethical code
( 禮教)
Reasonable, should be
modernized
Evil,
anthropophagous
Confucianism Respect but no cult Down with Confucius
( 打倒孔家店)
Etc.
17. How to learn from the west
-Xueheng and New Culture Movement
New Culture Movement
Xueheng
Chinese
Traditional
Culture
Western Culture
Chinese
Traditional
Culture
Western Culture
A New
Chinese Culture
19. Reference
The Critical Review.
Britannica Encyclopedia Online 2010.
Babbitt, Irving. Babbitt and New Humanism, trans. & edited by
Wu Mi etc. Shanghai: New Moon Books Press, 1929.
------ Rousseau and Romanticism. New York: AMS
Press, 1979.
Chow, Tse-tsung. The May Fourth Movement: intellectual
revolution in modern China. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1960.
Stromberg, Roland. European Intellectual History since 1789.
New Jersy: Prentice Hall, 1994.
Zheng, Shiqu. Between Westernization and Traditions --- On the
School of the Critical Review. Beijing: Beijing Normal University
Press, 2001.