The Research On The Cultural Self-confidence Generation Of The Knowledge Production In Chinese Universities

The collective cultural "silences" of Chinese universities on the knowledge production fully exposed the Chinese universities'cultural diffidence on the knowledge production, which indicates the declining of the discourse power and original creativity of Chinese universities on the knowledge production. Therefore, the generation of cultural self-confidence on the knowledge production in Chinese universities becomes an issue that needs to be addressed seriously.Three elements are closely related to the generation of cultural self-confidence on the knowledge production in Chinese universities, among which the cultural competence comes to the first, which consists of cultural original creativity, cultural inclusiveness and cultural influences. The cultural competence is the engine of the generation of cultural self-confidence on the knowledge production in Chinese universities. Without the cultural competence, there will be no cultural self-confidence on the knowledge production in Chinese universities. The second element is the cultural altitude, which consists of cultural values and cultural emotional trusts. The cultural attitude is the rudder of the Chinese universities to generate cultural self-confidence on the knowledge production, once the cultural attitude deviates, which means the lacking of both or one of the cultural values and cultural emotional trusts, it will be highly possible to fall into the cultural nihilism. As the third element, the cultural experience consists of the cultural subject's past experiences of cultural successes and failures. The cultural experience is the lubricant of the generation of cultural self-confidence on the knowledge production in Chinese universities. Too little experiences of success or too many experiences of failure will affect the generation of cultural self-confidence adverselyCurrently, there are three problems in the generation of cultural self-confidence on the knowledge production in Chinese universities, the cultural competences are weakening, the cultural attitudes are differentiated and the cultural experiences are unbalanced. The weakening cultural competences have gone through the three development stages, from the supremacy in ancient time to the overall decline in modern times, and to the original "silences" in the contemporary era. The differentiation of the cultural attitudes have evolved from the respects of the classics and Tao during the time of studying the Confucian classics to the translocation of China and the West during the time of old Chinese learning, and to the metaphysics and the cultural mental attitude of "chicken ribs" during the subsequent times. The unbalanced cultural experiences have also been through three stages, from the influxes of cultures in ancient time to the failures in the cultural conflicts in modern times, and to the single-sided learning and catching-up in the contemporary era.The cultural competence is the foundation of the generation of cultural self-confidence on the knowledge production in Chinese universities. The weakening cultural competence is the main cause of the Chinese universities'cultural diffidence on the knowledge production. Thereby, to generate the cultural competence is the prerequisite for Chinese universities to reconstruct their cultural self-confidence on knowledge production. The generation of cultural self-confidence on the knowledge production in Chinese universities needs the realization of the modern transition of the knowledge production modes, the innovation of the universal values of the traditional cultures, and the promotion of the cultural influences of the knowledge production of universities.The cultural attitude is the key of the generation of cultural self-confidence on the knowledge production in Chinese universities. In the knowledge production of Chinese universities, the main causes of the Chinese universities'cultural diffidence on the knowledge production are changes of the attitude towards the traditional cultures, from firm faith to doubt and denial, heading to the cultural nihilism, and the cultural mental attitude of "chicken ribs" contemporarily. Therefore, to cultivate the positive cultural attitude is the only way for Chinese universities to reconstruct their cultural self-confidence on knowledge production. The cultivation of the cultural attitude to the knowledge production in Chinese universities needs the emphases on the cultural consciousness of the knowledge production, the cultivation of the cultural values and beliefs, needs the emphases on the cultural emotional identification, the cultivation of the cultural emotional trusts, needs the emphases on the cultural safety of knowledge production, the prevention of the cultural nihilism.There are two kinds of experiences which are useful for Chinese universities'development. One is the developmental experiences of the foreign universities, especially the European universities in the19th century, represented by the universities in German; as well as the universities in the Western developed countries in20th century, represented by the universities in the U.S.A.. The other kind of experience is the Chinese universities'own developmental experiences, the process which spans from the introduction of the Western knowledge system into China started at the end of Qing Dynasty, to the restructuring of universities and colleges at the foundation of New China, and the massive university amalgamations since the1990s. In this process, some experiences are worthwhile for us to draw upon and accumulate, some to take warning from.