略论中国知识分子在抗战中的地位与作用

On Status and Functions of Chinese Intellectuals during the Anti-Japanese War

在抗日战争中,中国知识分子凭借自身的文化优势,为驱逐日本帝国主义出中国,做出了独有的贡献。第一,在中华民族面临生存危机的关头,素有强烈的民族主义诉求和爱国情操的中国知识分子,充当着抗日救亡运动的先锋和喉舌,以自己的知识、智力和文化特长服务于宣传抗日、唤起民众的伟大事业,为民族解放战争提供着源源不断的精神食粮。第二,把民族独立和社会改造密切联系在一起,把强国之梦和建立民主共和国的理想视为不可分离的奋斗目标的中国知识分子,是战时民主的不懈追求者和倡导者。第三,中国知识分子在战火纷飞的年代为保护珍贵的文物文献免遭涂炭,为中华文化的接续、传承和再创造,为中国的科学教育文化事业,做出了不可磨灭的贡献。

The war lasted for about 14 years. Chinese intellectuals, with their own specific cultural capacity, made significant and unique contibution. Firstly, the Chinese intellectuals who had a strong sense of national identity and high patriotic spirit, were in the vanguard and performed the role of representative speakers of China. Secondly, the Chinese intellectuals who ventured to combine national independence with social reform and considered empowering their motherland and establishing a republic an inseparable goal, were unremitting seekers and advocators of democracy. Thirdly, the intellectuals had made invaluable contributions to protection of our historical cultural heritage and treasures, to continuation, transmission and recreation of the Chinese culture, and to the cause of science, education and culture as well.