破解“历史的怪圈”——康有为、严复、辜鸿铭合论

Seeing through "the Strange Circle in Chinese History"——A Complex Discussion of KANG Yu-wei,YEN Fu and KU Hung-ming

在中国近代文化史上,鼓吹学习西方的积极分子如康有为、严复,完全由西方文化培育出来的饱学之士如辜鸿铭,晚年都在文化保守主义的旗帜下回归中国传统文化。这并非“倒退”或“堕落”。表现在康有为、严复和辜鸿铭思想中的所谓“历史的怪圈”,其实一点也不“怪”。他们思想的演进轨迹完全符合个人知识文化素养的本质规定性,完全符合源远流长、博大精深的中国文化传统强大生命力的释放规律,完全符合思想大家的个性化特征。学术界所谓规律性“怪圈”论,其实是因为自身的认识陷入了不自觉的误区。

In modern Chinese cultural history, the intellectuals who zealously advocated learning from the West such as Kang Yu-wei and Yen Fu, and those learned bookmen who were completely cultivated by western culture, as was instanced by Ku Hung-ming, regressed to Chinese traditional culture in their late years following the banner of cultural conservatism. This is not countermarch or backslide. “The strange circle in history”represented by Kang Yu-wei , Yen Fu and Ku Hung-ruing isn＇t strange at all in fact. The loca of their thought accorded with the essential prescript to individual cultural accomplishment and the releasing discipline of Chinese cultural tradition＇s mighty vitality, and also it tallied with great masters＇ individuation character. In last few years, the academia deemed that there was existed a regular “strange circle”.Why？ Just because the academia＇s own cognition plunged into the mistake.