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On Status and Functions of Chinese Intellectuals during the Anti-Japanese War
Yang Feng-cheng
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Abstract
The war lasted for about 14 years. Chinese intellectuals, with their own specific cultural capacity, made significant and unique contibution. Firstly, the Chinese intellectuals who had a strong sense of national identity and high patriotic spirit, were in the vanguard and performed the role of representative speakers of China. Secondly, the Chinese intellectuals who ventured to combine national independence with social reform and considered empowering their motherland and establishing a republic an inseparable goal, were unremitting seekers and advocators of democracy. Thirdly, the intellectuals had made invaluable contributions to protection of our historical cultural heritage and treasures, to continuation, transmission and recreation of the Chinese culture, and to the cause of science, education and culture as well.