엄복의 근대인식과 중·서학의 회통

Abstract

At the last reign of Qing dynasty, the Great west Powers' intruder has made their culture attack on Chinese native culture strongly. At that time, the intellectual class had to react to the attack. One of the most essential factors that made up the culture is value. The core distinction in different cultures is the diversity of value concept and value system. Facing with the huge attack of western culture, chinese were bound to reconstruct own value in that time. YanFu is an intellectual who represents modern China. He lived the tradition and a modern time of China from late 19th to early 20th. He studied and experienced the West more eagerly than anybody else. After returning to Chinese from studying in England, he analyzed Chinese society with base of principle and value of the west. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the following 1)YanFu's perception of Modernity 2)Attitude of YanFu to Chinese traditional studies and Western studies 3)Criticism of YanFu for theory of Chinese culture in western use(中體西用)