从新闻到文化传承的救国实践:萧公权的学术转向

The Practice of National Salvation from Journalism to Cultural Inheritance: Xiao Gongquan’s Academic Turns

萧公权是政治思想史等领域享有盛誉的学者,伴随着中国社会发展变化,他的学术生涯之中有多次重要的学术转向。萧公权青年时期参与过五四新文化时期的新闻事业,留美初期曾以新闻学为志向,之后转为研究政治哲学,回国后在中国政治思想史等领域取得了学术成果。美国时期转为对中国乡村进行历史政治学研究。萧公权多次学术转向,凝结了“中西融合、推陈出新”的治学理念和“学术救国”的初心,以及中西文化对他的交互影响。

Xiao Gongquan,a renowned scholar in political thought history,has undergone many important turns in his academic career with the development and changes of Chinese society. When he was young,Xiao Gongquan participated in journalism during the May 4th New Culture Movement. At the start of his studies in the United States,he first majored in journalism,but later turned to the study of political philosophy. During his stay in USA,he turned to the historical and political study of the Chinese countryside. After his return to China,he made academic achievements in the history of Chinese political thought and other fields. Xiao Gongquan’s numerous academic turns have embodied the academic idea of“integrating the east and the west,and bringing forth the new from the old ”as well as the original intention of“national salvation through academic activities”,so the interactive influence of ideological culture and social transformation can be discerned from his academic life.