From "Americanization" to "Localization": A Study on the Origination of College of Guoxue in Tsinghua University
Abstract
With the New Culture Movement in China started in all corners of society, Tsinghua garden accordingly appeared a cultural movement of thought, then known as "Tsinghua cultural movement." In this cultural movement, the spirit of the times the infection Tsinghua teachers and students, began to look sharp, Tsinghua education reflect the "American" and review the process of modernization in China, Tsinghua University's role and status of Chinese and Western cultures to form a reconcile the ideological atmosphere of the campus. During the depths of the Tsinghua students who, while feeling "Rearranging the National Heritage" movement is strongly influenced, so the criticism from the Chinese school education ignores the originator, and then extended to education called for schools to strengthen Guoxue until the last measure of the multiple factors under the school then changed to the Tsinghua University on the occasion, created to "both Chinese and Western, old and new communication," National Culture Institute. A culture movement named "Tsinghua Culture Movement" appeared in Tsinghua University during the May Fourth New Culture Movement. The faculties began to reflect on the educational tends of "Americanization" and the position of Tsinghua University in the course of China's modernization, and formed a coordination of Chinese and Western cultures. At the same time, the students in Tsinghua influenced by the movement of "Inventing China through History" took part in the movement from criticizing the ignorance of Chinese education to appeal to strengthen Guoxue education. Then, when Tsinghua was changed to a university, College of Guexue was established by the purpose of "Combination Chinese and Western Cultures, Communication the Tradition and the Modernization"