一代士商张謇的传统性与现代性纠结

Scholar or Merchant:The Tangle of Conventionality and Modernity of Zhang Jian

近代南通人张謇承晚清状元身份,跻身实业兴邦的行列,致力地方教育事业,以全国模范城市的业绩卓著。"士"与"商"的纠结定义成为传统与现代文化属性的最好例证,他顺应"新四民"变动趋势的历史性抉择,把"通古今、决然否"当作"士"最重要的理性凭借,以"仁以为己任""明道救世"作宗教性追寻,用自己波澜壮阔的一生作了决绝式的实践。

Zhang Jian in modern times,a Nantong native,bearing the identity of champion scholar of late Qing Dynasty,devoted to the industrial and local educational development and achieved an outstanding performance of building a national model city.The tangle of the definitions of scholar and merchant are a prime example of the combination of conventionality and modernity.He complies with the＂New Simin＂trends and chooses to be a scholar with cause of knowing the past and the present to refute.Taking benevolence and salvation as a religious pursuit,he fulfills them with his magnificent lifetime.