Aesthetic Education
editCai Yuanpei promoted the development of Chinese aesthetic education. He has his own unique insights into aesthetics and is influenced by traditional Chinese education. For example, he associated aesthetics with Chinese traditional virtues. Also, he connected aesthetics with education and politics, which is influenced by his experiences. He emphasized the importance of aesthetics for social stability and development.[1] He emphasized the social influence of aesthetics and predicted how it would work in modern society. Besides, he proposed that aesthetics is beneficial to the formation of "public morality and civic virtue"[2]
Female Education
editCai Yuanpei made a significant contribution to female education, which he made a series of efforts to fight for the right of education for women. Cai Yuanpei not only improved women’s equity in the education system, such as the first women's admission in 1920 and co-education, but he also advocated feminism to change the traditional Chinese concept of women.[3] Also, in promoting women’s education, Cai Yuanpei successively hired several feminists to teach at Peking University, such as Guo Hongming, Hu Shi, etc.[4] Those feminists played an important role in Cai Yuanpei's education reform for women at Peking University. Cai Yuanpei's education reform for women was also a breakthrough in the history of Chinese education.
Works
editNew Year's Dream
editA short fiction story about Cai Yuanpei‘s ideal society，which was created based on his own life. His short story was influenced by the writing style of utopian stories.The story revolves around the protagonist, "a Chinese citizen (zhongguo yimin)", telling about China’s 20th-century revolution. [5] Cai Yuanpei created the short story during the period that China suffered from the Sino-Japanese War and was also influenced by the Russo-Japanese War.[6] This article shows Cai Yuanpei's early political thoughts and concerns about Chinese society as a patriot. This article is not only a wake-up call for the Chinese but also an aspiration for the development of the Chinese social revolution.
main proposition
new civil religion during May Fourth movement
editPolitical thoughts
editHe advocated anarchism about anti-oppression to reestablish human civilization. But he emphasized the importance of “a complete state”, which is partly influenced by Western Anarchism's views on the state and the family. [6] Cai Yuanpei’s view on anarchism mainly targets to abolish the colonial oppression China suffered.
Reference
edit- ^ Wang, Ban (2020-03-01). "Aesthetics, Morality, and the Modern Community: Wang Guowei, Cai Yuanpei, and Lu Xun". Critical Inquiry. 46 (3): 496–514. doi:10.1086/708078. ISSN 0093-1896.
- ^ Wang, Ban (2020-03-01). "Aesthetics, Morality, and the Modern Community: Wang Guowei, Cai Yuanpei, and Lu Xun". Critical Inquiry. 46 (3): 496–514. doi:10.1086/708078. ISSN 0093-1896.
- ^ Lee, Yuen Ting (2007). "Active or Passive Initiator: Cai Yuanpei's Admission of Women to Beijing University (1919-20)". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 17 (3): 279–299. ISSN 1356-1863.
- ^ Lee, Yuen Ting (2007). "Active or Passive Initiator: Cai Yuanpei's Admission of Women to Beijing University (1919-20)". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 17 (3): 279–299. ISSN 1356-1863.
- ^ Li, Guangyi (2013). "A Chinese Anarcho-cosmopolitan Utopia: A Chinese Anarcho-cosmopolitan Utopia". Utopian Studies. 24 (1): 89–104. doi:10.5325/utopianstudies.24.1.0089. ISSN 1045-991X.
- ^ a b Li, Guangyi (2013). "A Chinese Anarcho-cosmopolitan Utopia: A Chinese Anarcho-cosmopolitan Utopia". Utopian Studies. 24 (1): 89–104. doi:10.5325/utopianstudies.24.1.0089. ISSN 1045-991X.