Social Transformation and the Mentality of Intellectuals——An Interpretation of Wang Guowei's Death in Sociological Perspective

Social transformation is the total change of social structure,and the mentality of intellectuals is the barometer of the velocity of the changing of social views.Wang Guowei was a great master of traditional Chinese learning in the history of Chinese academic ideas.He attempted to concern both academics and politics,to generally adjust cultures between China and the West,as the new and old ones.Meanwhile,he insisted that personal spiritual integrity and group mental attribute should be contradictorily united.However,his endeavors to contain the aforementioned things frequently made him fall into troubles,consequently causing him to choose to drown himself.From the perspective of sociology,the death of Wang Guowei reflects the complex mentality of intellectuals in the transformation period of late Qing Dynasty and early republican China.