Fight Modern Norm

The purpose of this thesis is to study the formative cause and crisis of modern Confucian code and why it become the secret disease in modern Chinese cultural development,in which key point is the enlightening significance supplied by the thoughts and practice of several representative intelletuals and the resisting possibility by literature.Chapter I mainly defines the concept of modern Confucian code.Name closely contacts the progress of human being's ability of recognition and forms public space of communication,whereas producing jerpardy in the long varying history.One of the extreme or dangerous pattern in this name-lead world is modern Confucian code,which originally refers to feudal ethics and rites that consists mainly of rectifying names.On the basis of regarding name as religion from the examples of Lu Xun and Hu Shi,this thesis attempts to research the manifestation of all kinds,such as abstract noun -ism concealing specific propositions of retrieving decline,what people concerns having nothing to do with social reality and human life but hollow symbols,and unworthy of the name,passing off fake articles for the real thing.The above is the first meaning of modern Confucian code,which focal point is that name breaks away from ,even distorts,swallows reality and forms an empty symbolic world.The second meaning is Lu Xun's saying false person should be taken away and superstition is allowed to stay,from which the reason modern Confucian code taking shape is that name is new,while attitude is still old(as Lu Xun said,the superficial knowledge changes newly,thoughts still).This old means no solid foundation, which could accept,hold,digest name,fostered interiorly because of an era of importing a large number of western names or so-called noun detonation modern China in.In this era all kinds of slogans,theories,trends and -ism spread unchecked but hardly influenced Chinese spirit,culture and society positively,one of which reason is false person and modern Confucian code in the way.Chapter II discusses Zhang Tai-yan's thoughts and practice fighting against with name and pursueing essence and his criticism to the theme substituting name for essence in his article On Four-confusion,which supply precious resources for fighting with practice by oneself and taking own opinion as the principle.Chapter III mainly studies the logic and substance of criticizing false person and summarizes the characteristics of Lu Xun's kownledge production,starting with his direct-viewing feeling to modern Confucian code.Chapter IV manifests Hu Feng's practice to fight against with modern Confucian code in his real struggle and difficult situation and tries to make clear fighting's definition,meaning and process from his special viewpoint of subjective consciousness.Chapter V summarizes the common characteristics showed in the fightings between the above-mentioned intellectuals and modern Confucian code and the possibility supplied by their works.