근대 중국의 ‘신학술운동’과 인문학

Abstract

This thesis is about on the historical development of the new academic movement in modern China, and reflections of how the historical course of this academic movement influenced modern scholarship. My thesis is divided into three parts: First, I will discuss the historical origins and development of the new academic movement in modern China. Second, I will discuss various problems arising from this new academic movement. Third, I will briefly discuss possible directions for the future development of the humanities in EastAsia. In this thesis, I have provided a brief overview of the origins of the new academic movement launched by this new stratum of intellectuals in the late Qing and early Republican period. The characteristics of the scholarship and research advocated by this "new academic movement" can be summed up in five points. These five characteristics formed the basic direction for the development of new academics(especially the humanities) in modern China. However, in the end of the 1920s at the latest, the political parties of the left and the right grew increasingly strong. Both the Kuomindang and the Chinese Communist Party believed that "party guidelines" should lead scholarship. This of course created considerable disruption to modern Chinese scholarship. I would like to emphasize that in contrast to the natural sciences, the humanities are closely linked to the local life of the people. The humanities should develop closer ties to local culture, and the humanities should connected more to the mental world and spiritual spheres. Thus, even though research is the most important factor in the writing and publication of dissertations, articles, and monographs, as much attention as possible should be given the value-based aspects of research in the humanities.