On the question of the spiritual resources of May Fourth new literature, Cai Yuanpei （1868-1940） once said categorically that the 1919 May Fourth Movement was one of cultural transformation ＂modeled after Western h...On the question of the spiritual resources of May Fourth new literature, Cai Yuanpei （1868-1940） once said categorically that the 1919 May Fourth Movement was one of cultural transformation ＂modeled after Western humanism and marking a transition from the world of God to the world of Man.＂ Likewise, Chen Duxiu （1879-1942） and Hu Shi （1891-1962） arbitrarily concluded that the May Fourth new literature was another ＂the Renaissance＂ following ＂today＇s majestic and brilliant European＂ civilization and symbolizing the rapid surge of modern China. Highly identified, as was natural, with such a view, Lu Xun （1881-1936） stated frankly, when talking about the sentiments that motivated his switch from a medical to a literary career, that ＂what I relied on was roughly what I had learned from the hundred or so foreign works I read and a thing or two I had learned in medical science,＂展开更多
文摘On the question of the spiritual resources of May Fourth new literature, Cai Yuanpei （1868-1940） once said categorically that the 1919 May Fourth Movement was one of cultural transformation ＂modeled after Western humanism and marking a transition from the world of God to the world of Man.＂ Likewise, Chen Duxiu （1879-1942） and Hu Shi （1891-1962） arbitrarily concluded that the May Fourth new literature was another ＂the Renaissance＂ following ＂today＇s majestic and brilliant European＂ civilization and symbolizing the rapid surge of modern China. Highly identified, as was natural, with such a view, Lu Xun （1881-1936） stated frankly, when talking about the sentiments that motivated his switch from a medical to a literary career, that ＂what I relied on was roughly what I had learned from the hundred or so foreign works I read and a thing or two I had learned in medical science,＂
