On Du Yaquan's Editorial Thoughts

This article combs through Du Yaquan's editorial practice,and the specific era background environment was taken into consideration.It analyzes the Confucian characteristics in his editorial thoughts,that is the extrinsic characteristic of "administration and pragmatism" and the interior quality of consonance and compromising.Furthermore,this paper will reevaluate his thoughts and analyze its inventiveness and limitations to provide a reference for present editing.Modern intellectuals,in the face of the unprecedented national crisis,inevitably have to break with tradition to some extent,from which they have inherited a lot meanwhile.Du Yaquan,having been deeply influenced by the traditional Confucian thought,adopted an open attitude towards western culture.As a result,his editorial thoughts are combined with the enthusiasm to widespread western science and the persistence to protect national traditional culture.The two,as the extremes of a confliction,are unified in his personal ideal perfectly.