The Confusion And Contradictions Of Modern Chinese Intellectuals

As one modern liberalism intellectual and academism scholar, Li JianWu's experience of life and his drama contain abundant historical message to create. Through describing roughly that Li JianWu choose earnestly among all sorts of cracks, this text attempts to display awkward psychology and historical destiny that the modern Chinese intellectual wanders up and down between the mission and individual character.The full text is divided into two parts:Chapter one: Puzzlement chosen in the crack. Sum up Li JianWu's widely creation vision, deeply knowledge background and his struggle between utility and art, divide three parts.First: modern times and tradition. While criticizing the feudal Confucian or feudal ethical that depress individual character and emotion, fetters people fiercely, his tolerance attitude and the audience's reality needing make Li JianWu has to compromise to traditional to certain extent. Certainly, this is reappraising the tradition on the basis of modern values.Second: the West and China. Ideas obtained from western countries form Li JianWu's basic mode of thinking and main foundation of the values, but tradition and reality of China determine the ways of Li JianWu accept western ideas. Li JianWu's drama is a blending in tradition and outside culture, a brand-new creation that on the basis of reality needs.Third: politics, commerce and art. Literature consciousness make Li JianWu try hardly to estrange politics and commerce, but traditional morals and realistic inexorable trend make Li JianWu have a close ties with the political theme of era, incline to make a concession to the commercialization of the drama.Chapter two: Contradiction struggling in the paradox. Li JianWu's individual character doctrine and humanistic thought interweave together deeply, his pursuit to the individual character that include to community responsibility at the same time. This can be divided into 3 stages.First, blending of individual character and mission. Li JianWu early play, its pursue to personal independence and deep sympathy of destiny of lower floor people exist at the same time, but has been already implying a certain antithesis of the freedom sense of the life and sense of calling of the society.Second, the conflicts of individual character and mission. Anti-Japanese Warmakes Li JianWu take the initiative close to politics, incorporate the collective, this makes nationalized color of his play enhance further, but the one that has caused to personage's individual character to a certain extent is coveredThird, the individual character and mission both suffer losses. War of resistance victorious social reality makes Li JianWu more disappointed and even desperate. The strong sense of duty to national destiny forces Li JianWu to carry on cruel self-introspection, therefore has lost the spiritual sense of superiority which is regarded as the social change advocate, giving up personal and independent insistences, but this makes him unable to really fulfill the mission to the society.Conclusion: Under the market economy condition, the intellectual's social responsibilijy is becOnugg iuzzy and tending towards disintegrating, but defends the spiritual hQQOje of peop^toCKictly what the artist's duty is all about; Intellectual should strengthen " post consciousness ", but keeps certain vigilance to politicizing and commercialization, it is one of " post consciousness " that actually should include...These of the contemporary intellectual have a certain communicating place with Li JianWu, this is real purpose of this thesis too.