The Intuitional Appreciation and Internal Resistance——A Study of the Reaction to the Western Culture of the Modern Chinese Intellectuals Through Wang Tao

The opening of modern Shanghai has been made a famous metropolis infested with foreign adventurers before liberation.As one of first generation of modern Chinese intellectuals,Wang Tao is attracted by advanced western material civilization when he comes to Shanghai at end of 1840,which is an important reason attracting him to work in London Mission Society Press.He admits that western civilization has its own merits,and it is his willing choice of entering London Mission Society Press,and his salary is high,but Wang Tao describes his life of cooperating with westerners as suffering.He always explains for his action of for foreigners,recounting his worries and difficulties of making such a choice,hoping that his friends can pardon him.Because of working for westerners,Wang Tao is rejected by traditional society,living in radical crash between Chinese and Western culture,becoming the marginal person.In ten years of his working in Press,he still has strong conception of honorable China,humble foreign,so he is in deep blaming of himself,shaming of working for foreigners and presenting strong resistance to western culture.