On The Wu Lei Chuanru Yesi Want Bidirectional Elaboration

During the late Qing Dynasty and Republic of China, China experienced great changes. Confronting a series of wars and unfair treaties, Chinese intellectuals were deeply worried about the future of China, and began actively looking for the road out of the woods. Among these intellectuals, a group of people had special cultural identity---They were trained as Confucian scholars, but also converted to Christianity. Mr.Wu Lei-Chuan, whom this study is about, is such an intellectual.The present study attempts to explore how Wu Lei-Chuan, an intellectual with double cultural identities, would handle the two seemingly incompatible traditions in his hermeneutics of both. From his response of the Anti-Christian movement, his own understanding of the Christian doctrine and his view on how the Chinese culture mixed with the Christian faith, we find that Mr. Wu is very much influenced by traditional Chinese culture, especially the Confucian ethical values. By close reading of literature, we find that Wu Lei-Chuan tends to explain the Christianity doctrine and Jesus from a highly Confucian perspective. His approach to understand Christianity from the Confucian perspective, that is,"yirushiye", suggests a deep impact of Confucian ideology. When he compares the Christian doctrine with Confucianism, as well as the comparison of personality between Jesus and Confucius, we can also infer that the influence of Confucian culture. In addition, Wu's thought also shows a strong tendency to pragmatism. He has stressed several times that Jesus and Mozi's ideas of social reform may play an important role on Chinese society. The road of revival of China, according to Wu Lei-Chuan, is essentially how to mix the Christianity and Chinese traditional culture essentially. Though Wu believes the combination of the two cultures would bring benefit to each other, he focuses more on the revival of China. According to him, Christianity is the most likely aid to achieve this goal.By analyzing the thought of Wu Lei-Chuan, I hope to provide a point of view to discuss the thought of this special double-identity group. At the same time, I also hope this study will also provide a reference for the research of the relationship between Chinese and Western culture at present and the future.