Cai Shangsi And Chinese Thought History Studies Of The Republic Of China

The early twentieth century, Cai Shangsi in Dehua of Fujian Province laid a solid foundation of classical science, to seek new academic air, Cai Shangsi overcame numerous obstacles, and decided to head for Beijing. When he reached the Beijing, Cai Shangsi wrote many letters to famous professors by following the example of the ancient letter.Then,lots of scholars and celebrities knew and guided him. However, Liang Qichao and Chen Yuan had a different attitude on whether he engaged in the History of Chinese Thought.The academic career of Cai Shangsi began in philosophical studies, especially in Confucian-based. The truth of Confucius philosophy was his main works committing ten years, which focused on the assessment itself and aspects of Confucius philosophy of life and built a comprehensive research system. The Research of Cai Shangsi had been many differences from outstanding scholars, especially, from Chen Huanzhang who was the representative of respecting Confucius.Cai Shangsi gradually integrated into the National Heritage of turmoil, Research methods of Chinese Thought and Thirty years to the Chinese circle thinkers were the representative works. The Research field of Cai Shangsi from twenties to thirties experienced the transition from philosophy to thinking, basic research-oriented thinking after the thirties,and with his ideas deeping about relationship between philosophy and history and expanding research materials,He gradually formed a relatively complete system of Chinese thought history, Research methods of Chinese Thought is his treatment of personal opinion, if we want to understand Republican thinkers in his eyes, Thirty years to the Chinese circle thinkers was more valuable, Research methods of Chinese Thought was Thirty years to the Chinese circle thinkers’ footnote.For Cai Shangsi, Nineteen thirties is diverse academic thinking period, which main outlook was materialism, while studied other academic schools.And he incorporated the traditional Confucian system of thought to the theoretical level of the study, but criticized the phenomenon of respecting Confucius.In Forties,Cai Shangsi published Chinese History New Study Method,which was his monograph discussing the historical methodology and a complementary of Research methods of Chinese Thought, adopting historical materialism methods and Research Methods of action, an important step in his plan of Chinese History Compilation.With the change of Cai Shangsi academic position, his views on the Chinese traditional culture has undergone a lot of change, not only had debates with Li Ji who belonged to the camp of materialism scholar on Taoist School, and wrote The criticism of Chinese traditional thinking to criticize the Confucius, and attacked the modern New Confucianism.