The concept of historical debate is new, and the academic circles see the truth; the article is clever and the imperial pen, and the Huanggang Wen bile Tao Xisheng. The conversation in The Ridge is still deaf, and the scorched earth is afraid of the War of Resistance; the great injustice is great, and the heroic soul of the heroism has survived for eternity.
Tao XiSheng middle-aged photo
Huanggang Cangbu Town faces Wuhu Lake, which connects to the vast Yangtze River, and from Wuhu Lake, it takes a small steamer to Hankou. This is a water route that Tao Xisheng took out of Huanggang and bid farewell to Dabie Mountain almost a hundred years ago. Tao Xisheng, who died in Taiwan at the age of ninety-one, has never been able to return to this small Town of Cangbu. Today, this Cangbu town has been assigned to Xinzhou District and belongs to Wuhan City. Things are people and things are not things, and tears flow first. Can Tao Xisheng in his dream go back to the past? History can no longer be repeated, and the waterway in memory has changed beyond recognition.
This is a figure with great ups and downs, a figure who is loyal and adulterous, and a figure who understands right and wrong. Tao Xisheng is a historian and historian of jurisprudence. He applied his intellectual wisdom to the field of academic research, and there were many insights that his contemporaries did not have, and with this insight led the academic world. Tao Xisheng's application of his academic wisdom to the political field has a sensitivity, thoughtfulness and uniqueness that others cannot match. This is Tao Xisheng's strength in riding the gap between academia and politics.
Tao Xisheng, who was familiar with the "History of History", "Book of Han" and "Zizhi Tongjian" since childhood, and had a strong interest in history, was also full of curiosity about Western studies, and he was admitted to the Bowen Academy and English Museum in Wuchang with excellent results when he was a teenager. In the Huanggang Guild Hall in Beijing, Tao Xisheng studied hard and was admitted to the preparatory department of Peking University with a single blow, and the master of traditional Chinese studies, Zhang Taiyan, became his Chinese language teachers. The seven books "Lü Shi Chunqiu", "HuainanZi", "Wenxin Carved Dragon", "Rizhilu", "Ten Driving Zhai Yang Xinlu", "Wenshi Tongyi", and "On the Balance of the Ancient Kingdom" were used by Tao Xisheng for life, and in Tao's own words, these seven books summarized the history of the evolution of Chinese philosophy and historiography. Tao Xisheng studied law at Peking University. Because of the recommendation of the famous jurist Huang Youchang, Tao Xisheng deeply remembered the names of the two books "Five Rites Tongkao" and "Reading Li TongKao", that is, these two books, so that Tao Xisheng had innovative academic research on ancient Chinese kinship law and inheritance law, that is, starting from the classical etiquette system and kinship relationship, Tao Xisheng ran across the field of ancient Chinese social history research.
Tao Xisheng is a passionate polemician and a person who can provoke polemic topics. This Hubei Yankee, who is full of tongues, initiates debate and controversy as a university law professor, which can be said to be a good play. In 1929, when Tao Xisheng was thirty years old, he and Zhou Fohai, Fan Zhongyun and others founded the New Life Bookstore in Shanghai and published the monthly magazine "New Life". It was this paper that opened a protracted debate in Chinese academia about the nature of Chinese social history. Tao Xisheng engaged in polemics with almost all academic opponents. Li Ji, Wang Yichang, and Yan Lingfeng, who called themselves from the Marxist school, criticized Tao Xisheng's academic ideas; Tao Xisheng's Hubei junior compatriot Hu Qiuyuan also called Tao Xisheng's historical views "Tao Xishengism", and his frivolity overflowed into words. However, those who extended, echoed, and endorsed Tao Xisheng's academic views were Dai Xingyuan, Zhu Bokang, Ye Qing, Wang Yanan, Liu Jingyuan, and others. At this time, Tao Xisheng also published his famous book "Analysis of the History of Chinese Society". The book was reprinted in one edition and was very popular with readers.
The semi-monthly magazine "Food Goods" edited by Tao Xisheng
In Shanghai and Nanjing, Tao Xisheng's academic reputation is very high, the magazines he founded are selling well, and the series of books published by New Life Bookstore are very large. But I don't know why Tao Xisheng suddenly resigned as a professor at the Law School of Central University to teach in the Political Science Department of his alma mater, Peking University, so that Tao Xisheng's wife Wan Bingru asked: "Xisheng went to Beiping and ran into trouble again?" When Tao Xisheng was a professor in the Department of Political Science at Peking University, he did three major events in his scholar's life, which can also be said to be three sensational big moves. The first big move was to write the three-volume History of Chinese Political Thought. In the field of chinese political thought history research, Tao Xisheng's work is the first and unprecedented in history. The History of Chinese Political Thought was the first textbook of the course offered in colleges and universities, and as a work of the New Life Higher Library, this large work has a great influence in the academic community. Lü Zhenyu, a Marxist historian who teaches at the Peking University of China, with the support of the Hunan fellow philosopher Li Da, also wants to write a "History of Chinese Political Thought," saying that he wants to fight with Tao Xisheng. Tao Xisheng's second sensational move at Peking University was to establish the famous semi-monthly magazine "Food Goods", which formed the "Food Goods School" in Chinese academic history. Tao Xisheng founded the semi-monthly magazine "Food Goods" in order to correct the shortcomings of the previous Chinese social history controversy of only talking about historical views and not about evidence and historical materials. Driven by Tao Xisheng, some young students and young professors from Peking University and Tsinghua University began to tilt their energy toward the field of ancient Chinese economic history, and the semi-monthly magazine "Food Goods" also published a large number of papers and historical materials on China's economic history, so that Tao Xisheng opened up a new field of ancient Chinese economic history. With Tao Xisheng as the academic leader, other disciples such as Ju Qingyuan, Wu Xianqing, Yang Liansheng, He Ziquan, Quan Hansheng, Tang Xianglong, Zhang Jiaju, and Li Bingheng formed an important "food goods" school. Tao Xisheng's third sensational move in the Beiping academic circles was to join hands with Wang Xinming, He Bingsong, Sam Mengwu, Fan Zhongyun, Wu Yugan, Sun Hanbing, and Huang Wenshan to publish the "Declaration on China-based Cultural Construction" on The Fourth Issue of Shanghai Cultural Construction. The "Declaration" proposes that in order to make China's politics, society and ideology have Chinese characteristics, it is necessary to engage in China-based cultural construction. China's cultural construction has become a major event of discussion and controversy in China's academic and cultural circles for a while.
The former site of the Presidential Palace of the Republic of China in Nanjing
Tao Xisheng was a figure who was once controversial, but this is not to say that he initiated an academic polemic in the field of academic culture, but rather his rebellious behavior during the War of Resistance. Chiang Kai-shek invited representatives of Peiping's cultural circles to a tea party in Lushan Anding and expressed his determination not to compromise with Japan and carry out the scorched earth war of resistance. However, as a literati, Tao Xisheng was not confident in the odds of victory in China's War of Resistance, and his letter to Hu Shi expressed his own worries and hoped to negotiate peace with Japan. Tao Xisheng threw himself into Wang Jingwei's puppet government and served as propaganda minister. Witnessing Wang's retrograde behavior, he secretly fled with Gao Zongwu, the organization minister of the Wang puppet government, and published the secret document of Wang Jingwei's rebellion in Hong Kong, causing a sensation. Tao Xisheng's move was greatly appreciated by Chiang Kai-shek, and he was appointed as the head of the major general's office of the presidential office, and he was appointed deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Kuomintang Central Committee and chief writer of the Central Daily. Tao Xisheng ghostwrote "The Destiny of China" for Chiang Kai-shek, advocating one doctrine, one political party, and one leader. As a result, Tao Xisheng became Chiang Kai-shek's literary boldness and the most authoritative theoretician of the Kuomintang. After moving to Taiwan, Tao Xisheng continued to run the "Central Daily", and also continued to run the semi-monthly magazine "Food Goods" and founded the Food Publishing House.
"The wind is always blown away by the rain and the wind", the glory of the past has become dull at the end of life. When Tao Xisheng passed away, he saw his grandson who rushed from the mainland to the United States, but he had a lifelong regret, he had nothing to linger on, and he died like this. Many of Tao Xisheng's descendants inherited his inheritance. The first son, Tao Jinsheng, is a famous expert in the history of the Liaojin and Song Dynasties, the first son, Tao Hengsheng, is an internationally renowned water conservancy expert, and the son-in-law Shen Suru is the younger brother of the famous politician Shen Junru and a well-known journalist.