The Rational Reflections over the Modern Consciousness of the Culture in the Reform Movement of 1898

The culture in question was a new one coming to the stage in the Reform Movement of 1898 in China, with the cultural reformation as the core and the saving of the endangering nation as the target. As it was a new taste and culture embryonic of the capitalist culture against the then predominant orthodoxical Confucian culture, the culture was at that time transforming from the traditional into the modern. As a transitional culture, it manifests itself as follows: with the western culture as the parameter, the Chinese culture achieves its relocation from the traditional scholarly orientation to the socio-political orientation; what's more, this movement adopted a radical anti-traditional method to awaken the political consciousness and the sense of rights in the new intelligentsia. However, this Reform Movement has its own unconquerable defects such the shallow and shabby mentality, the desire for the new while still reluctant to abandon the old, and the overdue respect and reverie to the monarch.