Abstract
Wan Yuanhua (1920-2008) believed that academic research and ideology should be integrated with each other, and this idea of ideology-academics integration is Wang's preposition to redress the social maladies. Although his idea has not found fervent echoes in the academic circle, the paper claims that his idea could not be ignored during the development of our cultural intellectual history and can be done full justice by scholars who have investigated the origin, trajectory and outcome of his idea. What worried Wan Yuanhua was the spiritual rootlessness shown in the cynicalness toward and mindless challenge of serious academic pursuit. Wang Yuanhua's intellectual reflection is to make seen the hidden force that pushes an unhealthy cultural trend in today's society, often in the form of massive crazy star-chasing, or huge piles of tawdry publications, or any other cultural rubbish. His pioneering efforts have indeed shed great light on our intellectual history.
First Page
60
Last Page
71
Recommended Citation
Lao, Chengwan, and Guoqiao Lan. 2014. "Wang Yuanhua's Concept of Ideology-Academics as Social Remedy and Its Implications to Intellectual History." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 34, (4): pp.60-71. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol34/iss4/24
