"War Period"school was a cultural and academic group that emerged in Anti-Japanese war and made a great hit. Scholars of"war period"had their own set of theories and ideas in every aspect of Chinese culture. They were deep influenced by Oswald Spengler (1880—1936), who was a great historian and philosopher in German, and succeed in using his theory to analysis Chinese culture and history, advancing a lot of valuable viewpoints. Meanwhile, towards the aggression, they appealed to general populace for overcome the difficulties and preserve on dependences, and appealed to intellectuals and elites to undertake the task of rebuilt the Chinese culture. However, the"worship of heroes"they advanced lead to lots of criticize and censure. After the set of the People's Republic of China, when scholars analysis and study this"war period"school, they amalgamate it into fascism. Until 1980s, this kind of vision had not changed.As the development of the innovate and the open to foreign countries, more and more scholars have started to review"war period"school, probing into it's value and discovering it's positive influence. Nowadays, many scholars query the views on"War Period"school formed in last century, which thought that the"war period"school was anther kind of fascism. In the writer's opinion, as to such kind of controversial academic issue, we should treat it objectively, by put aside ideology of the old view and purely study it from the perspective of academic research. |