老舍與中國民族精神建構

Abstract

The 20th century in China was a time for Chinese people to awake and the nation to rise as a power in the world. To explore the construct of the Chinese ethics with the world as the background is a constant theme, both dyschronous and synchronous, that penetrates Lao She's works. In 1920s, based on the comparison and contrast of the West and the East, he examined the inherent weaknesses of Chinese nation. In 1930s, for the purpose of rescuing the nation, he explored the origins of the inherent weaknesses of Chinese people all-dimensionally. His works in 1940s, like an X-ray, offered an accurate reflection of people's moral conducts during wartime, and he provided the blueprints of constructing the nation's ethics; After 1949, with great enthusiasm, he sought for the practical means for and the historical law of the construction of the nation's ethics. In brief, Lao She's works may be seen as the Revelations that offer us an insight into the construct of the national ethics of modern China.