Qian Mu, then president of the New Asia College, performs the arch salute at the college celebration party in September 1955
Among the intellectuals of the Republic of China, there are two masters who must be mentioned: one is Fu Sian and the other is Qian Mu. The former is a worthy genius, genius and master of Chinese history and national studies in the 20th century, and some even compare him with another master of national studies, Chen Yinkian. In addition, his passionate, fierce, cynical character, is rare among intellectuals, people gave the title of “Fu Cannon”. The latter was also an accomplished historian in the field of history, and is known as one of the “Four Modern Historians” along with Chen Yinqian, Lu Simian, and Chen Yuan. He also founded the New Asia College in Hong Kong to spread Chinese Culture.
In August 1949, Mao called them “a tiny minority of the reactionary government controlled by imperialism and its lackeys in China” in his article “Throw away illusions and prepare for struggle. “.
Why did these two literati make Mao so indignant? It is because unlike many intellectuals in the Republic of China who fell for the Chinese Communist Party and were cheated by it, stayed on the mainland and suffered from its destruction, Fu Sian and Qian Mu not only did well in their studies but also had a good eye. Although they had different philosophies, they both saw through Mao Zedong and the CCP, so they chose to leave the mainland when the CCP seized the kingdom. This article is only about Fu Sian and Qian Mu.
The First Talented Scholar of the Yellow River Region
Born in 1896, Fu Snenian’s ancestor was the first scholar during the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, and served as a chancellor, so his Family was prominent. Fu Sian was also smart and well-educated since childhood, familiar with the classics of Confucianism, known as the “Yellow River region’s first talent. When he was 18 years old, he entered Peking University to study Chinese studies, and was said to have topped every examination.
After graduating from Peking University, he joined the University of London Graduate School and the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Berlin, where he studied experimental psychology, physiology, mathematics, physics and Einstein’s theory of relativity, Bronk’s quantum theory, etc. He also became interested in comparative linguistics and koans.
After returning to China in the winter of 1926, Fu was appointed as a professor at Zhongshan University in Guangzhou and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and the Department of History and Chinese Language, and later founded the influential Institute of History and Language of the Academia Sinica in China, and became its own director. He also actively organized several large archaeological excavations, such as the excavation of the Yin ruins in Anyang, Henan Province, the results of his research in history also mostly out of this period.
During the war, Fu was a professor at the Southwest United University, and also served as a senator in the National Council of Government, attacking corrupt officials, and the then-powerful Kong Xiangxi was impeached by him.
Yan’an trip to recognize Mao and the Chinese Communist Party
At the end of the war, the defeat of Japan was an indisputable fact, and the two parties began to consider the issue of power. On June 2, 1945, Huang Yanpei, Zhang Bojun and other members of the Democratic League, together with the non-partisan Fu Sinian, made a joint call to Mao Zedong, proposing a visit to Yan’an. Only two weeks later did Mao reply with a welcome telegram, and Chiang Kai-shek did not express any objection.
On July 1, 1945, Fu Snen, Huang Yanpei, Zhang Bojun and a group of six others arrived in Yan’an by special plane and were personally greeted by Mao, Zhou Enlai and Zhu De at the airport. In addition to a banquet for all, Mao, who had worked as a librarian at Peking University, also took an evening to talk with Fu Sinian. Fu Sian also had the opportunity to visit the Central Research Institute, the Marxist-Leninist Institute and other organs in Yan’an, and to meet Fan Wenlan, a historian of the Chinese Communist Party.
On July 5, the members of the delegation left Yan’an and returned to Chongqing. Unlike Huang Yanpei, who said that the trip to Yan’an was “like sitting in a spring breeze”, Fu Sian had an extremely sober understanding. After his return, he had several times with the president of the Central University Luo Jialun said that the style of Yan’an is purely authoritarian and foolish, that is, anti-liberty, anti-democratic style. During his conversations with Mao, he found that he was very familiar with all kinds of novels in the market, even those of low interest, and it was through these materials that he studied the psychology of the people and exploited them, so Fushenian thought Mao was just “Song Jiang first class”.
In his reminiscences, Luo also mentioned that when Fu and Mao strolled to the auditorium and saw the dense layers of banners dedicated to Mao, Fu said sarcastically, “The hall is magnificent!” Mao was somewhat aware of this, but did not respond.
As for the fellow members of the Democratic League, Fu thought they were very unproductive. He said that Zhang Bojun was returned to the clan by the Third Party, and the most shameless one was Huang Yanpei, who regarded the earth-woven woolen blanket given to them by Mao as the same as the dharmakaya quilt given by The Emperor, probably because he wanted to use it as a talisman. Therefore, Fushen despised them very much.
No good feeling towards Soviet Communist Party
As a matter of fact, Fu Sinian always had no good feelings towards the Soviet Union and the Chinese Communist Party. As early as 1932, in his article “China Needs a Government Now”, he openly said that the Communist Party “is basically a rogue bandit of the ancestors, but the former rogue bandit was caused by the failure of the government in the past, the present Communist Party is caused by the failure of the government in the past, but the present Communist Party is caused by the collapse of the national economy in addition to the failure of the government in the past”. He declared: “Because of nationalism and humanitarianism, we are Anti-Communist and anti-Soviet. I cannot oppose the Communist Party in the same way as the Communist Party, because if I first pay homage to the Communist Party and use its approach of not being reasonable and not valuing humanity, then I will not be able to stand up for myself, and the only result of opposing the Communist Party will be to expand its power for the Communist Party.” In his eyes, the CCP and the Soviet Union were inseparable, and the CCP followed Stalin’s dictatorship, so once the Communist Party came to power, social order would be greatly disrupted, and even people’s freedom would be deprived, and culture would become a desert, and so on.
Fu was very disturbed when he saw many young people gradually evolving into fierce leftists. He once said this to others: If I were a young man of 17 or 18, I might have been interested in the Communist Party, but since I came into contact with the Communist Party, I would never be a Communist!
In December 1950, due to a sudden cerebral hemorrhage, Fu died. In his memorial service, Chiang Kai-shek personally to pay tribute, dignitaries from all walks of Life also came to say goodbye, a total of more than 5,000 people to pay tribute, and elegiac couplets, tributes, letters of condolence, condolence messages, memorial articles are also quite a lot. In order to commemorate Fu Si-nian, Taiwan University placed his tomb on the campus, known as “Fu Yuan”.
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