Me and the Chinese Civilization Academy
Author: Jin Chunfeng
Source: “Dong Zi and Confucianism Research” WeChat public account
Time: Confucius 257 The fifth day of the fifth year, August 17, Bingxu
Jesus September 19, 2024
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The Chinese Civilization Academy was established in 1984. Professors set up colleges and scholars gathered together, bursting out with unprecedented vitality and creativity. Liang Shuming, Feng Youlan, Zhang Dainian, Ren Jiyu and other older generation scholars came. Tang Yijie, Sun Changjiang, Ning Ke, Li Zehou, Le Daiyun and other middle-aged scholars came. Li Zhonghua, Wang Shouchang, Wei Changhai and other young scholars came. Du Weiming, Cheng ZhongJamaicans Sugardaddyying, Chen Guying, Ran Yunhua, Chen Qiyun, Fu Weixun, Wei Zhengtong, Li Shaokun and other domestic scholars also came. . This is how the academy was established.
The academy is run solely by scholars, without any powerful institutions or official positions. Traditional Chinese civilization, Eastern civilization, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, literature, history and philosophy are all inclusive and free from restraint. The situation of silence was broken, and academic prosperity was created, which quickly affected the whole country. I still remember Mr. Liang Shuming’s appearance when he preached on the eve of Peking University decades ago. He was tall, stern, and majestic: “I am here to promote Confucianism and Confucius.” From then on, Chinese studies stood up again and entered the world. He left Yanyuan and ushered in a new era of civilization. I still have several books here from the “Comparative Series of Chinese and Western Civilizations” published by the academy back then, which reflect the ambition of “letting foreign civilizations come in and Chinese civilization go out.” The vitality of culture and the active thinking confirm the correctness of the policy of the Third Plenary Session of the Party Central Committee. Chinese intellectuals naturally love their own national culture and have a sense of responsibility for historical missions. After the trauma, their enthusiasm for civilization and creation emerged.
Mr. Liang stood on a high podium, surrounded by reporters’ cameras. I was shocked by his personality. I can’t remember exactly what he said. . My thinking at that time was completely Marxist. An article rectifying Dong Zhongshu’s name was published in “Chinese Social Sciences” (it was also selected for publication in the English version of the journal). It was used as a guideline to restrain my thoughts and seek truth from factsJM Escorts is written as a case, not to Jamaica Sugar revive the tradition civilization.JM Escorts At that time, I had not yet learned that Mr. Tang founded the “Culture School” and set up the “Chinese Studies Research Institute” at Shenzhen University As well as the far-sightedness of reviving Chinese studies, it is far from keeping up with his procedures.
When Mr. Tang went to Shenzhen University to set up a research institute on Chinese studies, he first planned to continue publishing the “Collected Journal of Chinese Studies” of the old Peking University. I was appointed as the deputy editor-in-chief and published “Collection” in Oriental Publishing House.
Mr. Tang assembled the manuscripts for the first issue and gave them to me, and published an advertisement in “Guangming Daily” with an “Article Table of Contents”. It is of great significance to the promotion of Chinese studies. However, I did not expect that this would lead to a large number of accountability calls to the Publishing House. Among them, Mr. Mou Zongsan’s “Theory of Perfection·Preface” is even more criticized. In fact, Mr. Mou’s article solicited the opinions of Mr. Zhao Fusan of the Academy of Social Sciences, and it was also a manuscript that Mr. Tang asked Mr. Mou in person in Hong Kong. This was originally a great thing, but it aroused opposition. The title of the journal was also changed to “Chinese Civilization and Chinese Philosophy”. To this end, I wrote a short book description. Mr. Tang was in American, and after returning to China, he had no choice but to publish under this name.
Mr. Tang re-wrote the “Editor’s Note”:
This collection was originally Jamaicans EscortThe first volume of “Collected Journal of Chinese Studies” is now published in the form of a collection of essays, titled “Chinese Civilization and Chinese PhilosophyJamaica Sugar“. At present, Jamaicans Escort there is a development trend of paying more and more attention to the study of traditional Chinese thought and culture at home and abroad. From a domestic perspective, since the realization of the four modernizations must be coordinated with the modernization of ideological civilization, we are required to conduct historical reflection on China’s traditional ideological civilization. “Modernization” is a very complicated topic. Proposing to realize “modernization” shows that we are still in a “non-modernization” historical stage. Therefore, first of all, there is the issue of the relationship between “modernization” and “tradition”, which cannot be closely related to traditional culture. Looking back at the history of more than 100 years, we can see that since the proposal of “Chinese body and Western application”, there has been a so-called “Chinese and foreign ancient and modern” dispute. The debate between “comprehensive Europeanization” and “local civilization” continued from around the May 4th Movement to the 1930s and 1940s. The issue was not really resolved and was later shelved. Is there a question of confusing “modernization” and “orientalization” here? Today, although our society has made a lot of progress, this problem still seems to have not been solved well. Of course we can no longer advocate “total Europeanization”, and we must also oppose “national essence”. For more than half a century, people have tried to find a shortcut to modernization by simply introducing Eastern science and technology and its methods. However, China’s path to modernization has been circuitous. It is precisely because of the pauses in the modernization process that people are forced to turn to the deep structure of Chinese society-traditional Jamaicans Escort Historical reflections allow for comparisons among divergent civilizational entities. Issues such as the comparative study of Eastern and Western civilizations, the valuation of traditional Chinese culture, and how Chinese civilization developed have been logically raised in the process of historical development. From a foreign perspective, due to a certain spiritual crisis in the Eastern world, they are forced to find remedies from Eastern civilization, especially Chinese civilization; coupled with the development of industry in East Asia, the speed of technological and economic development has a tendency to exceed that of the East. It also promoted the upsurge of research on Eastern civilization in the West. This collection of essays is edited and published to adapt to the development trend of research on Chinese traditional thought and culture at home and abroad.
This collection of papers has invited more than 20 experts, scholars and researchers at home and abroad to serve as editorial board members. They are: Chief Editor Tang Yijie, Deputy Editors: Jin Chunfeng (Executive Executive), Li Xueqin, Yan Shaochuan. The editorial board members include Ding Weizhi, Wang Shengping, Ning Ke, Ye Xianliang, Sun Changjiang, Sun Meng, Zhang Yide, Mou Zhongjian, Li Zehou, Pang Pu, Chen Guying, Chen Jinsheng, Meng Peiyuan, Pei Jialin, Zhao Lingyang (Hong Kong), Du Weiming (U.S.) ), Cheng Zhongying (US), Li Shaokun (US), Ran Yunhua (Canada), Jiang Yunming (Australia), Gao Zhangxuan (France), Ito Shuhei (JM EscortsJapan). Xing Shanhong (Japan), etc.
Shenzhen University Institute of Chinese Studies
June 1986
“Chinese Civilization and Chinese Philosophy” Jamaica Sugar It was the first magazine to hold high the banner of revitalizing the Chinese nation, which is of great historical significance. Today, Chinese studies have started a prairie fire and blossomed everywhere. Looking back on history, we cannot do the work of “awakening first and realizing later”. Forgot.
The first episode of “Collection” brings together the masterpieces of famous figures and old, middle-aged and young scholars at home and abroad, unfolding the communication between Chinese and Western civilizations, which is extremely short-lived. It’s amazing! Wenming Academy has not published a “collection”, but Mr. Tang has two posts. The two complement each other. This can be regarded as the “collection” of the academy.
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I am very honored. In January 1986, Wenming Academy sent me an appointment letter signed by Dean Tang. Appointment letter as mentor (professor) (In 1985, I was officially rated as editor (professor) of Jamaica Sugar Daddy at People’s Publishing House) , officially became a member of the academy’s big family. I still remember the scene when Wang Shouchang, Li Zhonghua, Wei Changhai and other young founders of the academy welcomed me to the academyJamaicans. Escortstill new.
I held a lecture on Han Dynasty Thought Jamaica Sugar in the academy, and also went to Nanjing and other places many times to give lectures to Guangnian Face-to-face lectures for students at night. More than ten years later, there was a video playback produced by the college. When I saw a scene of me talking about the thoughts of the Han Dynasty, I was very excited. In a moment, I was taken back to the glorious days when the academy was booming, youth was vigorous, and “unfetteredness is creativity.”
At that time, there were a large number of students studying by correspondence in the college, and the instructors went to various places to give lectures, which was very popular. I was a member of the mentoring group who came to Nanjing. The scene was solemn and packed with people, just like what Laozi said: “The nectar falls from heaven, but the people do not follow orders but distribute it themselves.” This kind of desire to relieve the famine of civilization is difficult for today’s college students to imagine, and I’m afraid it will be difficult to reproduce.
In 1987, the college held the “Liang Shuming Academic Conference” at Jamaica Sugar Daddy Xiangshan “International Symposium”, I participated in and submitted a long paper, which was published by Mr. Tang in the second volume of “Chinese Culture and Philosophy”. Master Liang then called the girl in front of her and asked her why. How could she know? It was because of what she did to the Li family and the Zhang family Jamaica Sugar Daddy. The girl felt that not only her husband had seen her, she was very happy.
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The appointment letter and mission certificate given to me by the college have been kept at the bottom of the box for a long time and have gone through many vicissitudes of life. In order to write a commemorative message, I turned it out and it was like meeting old friends again JM Escorts is extremely friendly. The academy was very disciplined and meticulous in its work. This fine tradition is worth learning and carrying forward.
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In 1988, I applied for a position as a senior researcher at the Institute of East Asian Philosophy in Singapore. I arrived in 1990 I went to the Department of East Asia at Princeton University for visiting research, and then went to Taiwan for research and lectures. In 2005, I left Foguang University and lived in Beijing. I no longer had an employer, so the Chinese Culture College became my spiritual home. , a place to live and work in peace and contentment
The civilized gathering at the end of each year to celebrate my mentor’s birthday brings me great spiritual surprise. Mr. Tang, Mr. Le and My teachers from Peking University—Xie Long, Zhang Shiying, Yang Xin, Sun Xiaoli, and my mentors and friends Sun Changjiang, Ning Ke, Li Zehou, Shen Changwen, etc.—can gather and talk here, which is extremely rare, “It’s like a “Lanting gathering.” One cup of wine and one chant, one can freely talk about the secret feelings, wander the eyes and make one feel pregnant, it is a great audio-visual entertainment, and it is also a joy to believe. “I wrote a short poem to congratulate Master Zhang Shiying on his 95th birthday and Master Yang Xin on his 90th birthday. I wrote it with a brush and showed it at the gathering. Later I went back to Longguan to visit Master Zhang. He was very happy and gave me a gift in return. I have a lot of philosophical banners written by him. 5&wx_lazy = 1 His calligraphy has entered a new realm and is expected toI am deeply moved by organizing more JM Escorts activities to revive Chinese civilization.
I like a little poem by my teacher very much: “Life is ordinary at seventy, the autumn leaves are not yet yellow at eighty, and the maple forest is as red as dye at ninetyJM Escorts, look forward to welcoming the spring snow.” I said that I hope that when the teacher’s energy is good, he will write and give it as a gift to encourage him. JM Escorts Soon “Even if what you just said is true Jamaicans Escort, but my mother believes that it is definitely not the only reason why you told your mother that you are so anxious to go to Qizhou. There must be other reasons. The teacher your mother mentioned was sick and hospitalized before he was hospitalized. I have already written it, and I said Jamaica Sugar Daddy that I will write the small one first, and then I will frame it. Hanging above the dining table, I always look forward to it and encourage myself.
The school published a series of essays for teachers in Oriental Publishing House. I was included in it and was even more popular. Great encouragement
“Learn and practice it from time to time. Is that true? Isn’t it great to have friends from far away? Isn’t it true that people don’t get upset if they don’t know? “The academy allowed me to truly understand the life experience of Confucius. Don’t worry about food and clothing, spiritual food is human life. I am very grateful to the academy for giving me spiritual comfort, and I am honored to do something for Mr. Tang and the academy. Work. “The college has carried forward this fine tradition of Chinese civilization.
It is the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the college and it has made remarkable achievements. I wish its career more prosperity!
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Appendix: Rare historical materials
Yesterday (2024.8.3) I was looking through the dusty box and found a precious letter, written by Mr. Tang to me in American, talking about the publication of “Collected Journal of Chinese Studies”. I was done. The man nodded slightly, took another breath, and then Jamaicans Escort explainedJamaica Sugar Daddy explains the causes and consequences. I can’t even remember the task of writing him a letter. I only found out from the letter that I had written to him to report on Jamaica Sugar. This is a reply letter. The content is as follows:
Comrade Chunfeng:
The letter has been received. Can “Chinese Studies Collection” make progress?
I once wrote a letter to Li Zehou and sent it to Li Zhonghua, asking him to give it to Sun Changjiang to see if it could be transferred to Li Suo’s home. And asked Li Zhonghua to give you a copy. I wonder if he has Jamaica Sugar Daddy given it to you? He also explained that please give Li Zehou a copy of our book publishing instructions and the like.
I hope that the “Chinese Studies Collection” (publishing problem) has been solved long ago. If it cannot be solved, can it be published in Hong Kong Sanlian? Le Daiyun will go to Hong Kong from American at the end of July, so she can contact him. But we have to wait until you and Sanlian come to an agreement. If possible, we will find someone to contact you, bring out the manuscript paper, and hand it over to Sanlian. …how? Of course, this is a bad idea, because Jamaica Sugar Daddy will only be able to publish books in Hong Kong from now on.
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You plan to go to Singapore for business. I am planning to meet Du Weiming and Yu Yingshi (both of them) in July. We are all directors of the East Asian Institute in Singapore) and we will discuss it. There are many people who want to go there, including Wu Fang Litian, Chen Jisheng, etc. We will try to set it up. What is the domestic situation? Let’s see the report. I will go to New York at the end of May. Please send your letters to Tang Shuang. I will probably return to China in August, best wishes.
Received a letter from Sun Changjiang, saying that he would help publish a book for “Collected Journal of Chinese Studies”. You contact him and ask him to help us establish a relationship as soon as possible.
Tang Yijie
April 30
Editor: Jin Fu