Enlightenment of Huang Yuan-sheng′s Ideas on Modern Chinese Thoughts

The paper presents the view that Huang Yuan-sheng,as a famous journalist in the early republic of China,has made some contributions to modern China's ideological culture.It is proposed and proved that it was Huang Yuan-sheng who first advocated,in some sense,the new culture movement,enlightened and influenced a number of progressive intellectuals like Chen Du-xiu,Hu shi and Zhou en-lai during the May Fourth movement.It is argued that his confession deep in heart and his strong sense of self-criticism further perfected the personality construction of Chinese intellectuals.Therefore,his position in the history of modern Chinese culture and ideology should be affirmed.