From 65438 to 0965, Jin Guantao entered the chemistry department of Peking University and joined the propaganda team of Peking University. Although he studied science, he has a strong interest in liberal arts. In order to reflect on the Cultural Revolution, he studied Mao Zedong Thought, from Marx to Hegel. In particular, he was fascinated by Hegel, so his friends nicknamed him "Gingell". At this time, Liu Qingfeng was in the Physics Department of Peking University, and later transferred to the Chinese Department. The two met through a study note on Hegel's philosophy written by Jin Guantao.
1970 Jin Guantao graduated from Peking University and worked as a worker in Hangzhou Plastics Factory. Liu Qingfeng teaches in Qingzhen Middle School in Guizhou. After they got married, Liu Qingfeng was transferred to Zhengzhou University to teach, and then Jin Guantao was transferred to Zhengzhou University. During this period, they conceived the hypothesis of "China's ultra-stable social system". At the beginning of 1980, the paper "Prosperity and Crisis —— On the Ultra-stable Structure of China Society" was published in Journal of Guiyang Normal University in two phases.
At the beginning of 1978, the couple transferred from Zhengzhou University to the journal Dialectics of Nature of Chinese Academy of Sciences as editors. Later, he became a researcher at the Institute of Science and Technology Policy and Management Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, director of the research office of philosophy of science, and concurrently served as deputy director of the Center for Research and Development of Science, Economy and Society and director of the academic committee.
In the "cultural upsurge" around 1985, three large-scale folk cultural institutions emerged: the editorial board of "Towards the Future" series with Jin Guantao and Bao Zunxin as editors; Editorial Committee of Chinese Culture Society with Tang, Yue, Li Zehou as the main force; Editorial Board of Culture: China and the World with Gan Yang, Rebecca, Su Guoxun, Zhao and Zhou as the main body. In five or six years, the above three cultural "circles" have actually become the main "think tanks" leading various ideological trends in the humanities field in Chinese mainland.
The series "Towards the Future" is the first series of western new ideological trends that have a wide influence in China. The composition of the editorial board is quite complicated, and many people who are keen on reform in the fields of science, humanities and politics are involved. It is characterized by emphasizing scientism, being close to reality and facing the public. Of course, the most influential is Jin Guantao's Superstable Structure of China Feudal Society. And the translation of a series of western futuristic works, such as The Third Wave and Megatrends, had a great influence on the social reform at that time.
The "methodological craze" in academic circles is also directly attributed to the western works on information theory, system theory and cybernetics translated by the series.
Different from Towards the Future is the editorial board of Culture: China and the World.
This is a "pure academic" circle mainly composed of a group of young scholars from China Academy of Social Sciences, Peking University and other institutions of higher learning. It is characterized by emphasizing humanism, professionalism, academic independence and depoliticization. The main work is to translate and introduce the classic works in the field of western humanities in the twentieth century. There are two series: professional "academic library" and public "new knowledge library".
In the past few years, the main western thoughts in this century, such as philosophy, sociology, politics, law, psychology, ethics, literary theory, etc. From the most difficult tome, The Book of Heaven, Heidegger's Being and Time, and Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness to Huntington's Changing the Political Order in the Society and feminist theorists, all these directly triggered the debate on new authoritarianism in the future.
"Non-political politics" is the slogan clearly put forward by this "circle" (which coincides with the slogan put forward by Javier in Czech Republic). On the first Thursday of every month, they always hold an academic salon party to seriously discuss one or two academic topics. Once or twice a month, there are always several family or outing parties to talk.
The "Chinese Culture Academy", whose role is between the above two editorial boards (the staff are also intertwined), wants to inherit the way of "Academy" and "Learning Society" founded by Zhu and other ancestors since the Song and Ming Dynasties, with Liang Shuming as honorary president, and conduct research and impart knowledge in the form of correspondence and holiday workshops. Part-time lecturers are "temporary choices" of domestic and foreign academic circles on China cultural studies (including overseas professor Du Weiming). It is characterized by its emphasis on proceeding from tradition, cultural continuity and constructive cultural criticism.
Yu-sheng Lin's theory of "traditional creative transformation" and Du Weiming's theory of "the third development of Confucianism" have both caused extensive discussions and were once regarded as the "signature proposition" of "China Cultural Institute". Their gentle, gradual and inclusive way of running schools is not only widely accepted by all parties, but also brings considerable economic benefits. It is said that the number of people who sign up for classes in all parts of the country every winter and summer vacation often reaches hundreds of thousands (mostly teachers from universities around the country), not to mention that correspondence teaching materials have made Luoyang paper expensive for some time. Its cultural influence is self-evident, and celebrities from all walks of life attended the meeting, which shows the attraction and inclusiveness of the Cultural Institute. Similar academies include Youzhou Academy, which pays more attention to the collation and publication of ancient books.
During their stay in the mainland, Jin Guantao and his wife basically stayed in the direction of social history and explored social transformation. This is actually their concern for reality, trying to explore the development path of modern society in China through the study of history.
From 65438 to 0989, Mr. and Mrs. Jin Guantao were invited by the Chinese University of Hong Kong for academic exchanges and were forced to stay in Hong Kong. They were retained by then-President Gao Kun (the father of optical fiber and the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics), and were appointed as professors of China Institute and director of the Center for Contemporary China Cultural Studies. And founded the only academic magazine in Hong Kong, 2 1 Century. Liu Qingfeng is the chief editor. However, the two children remain in the mainland and are taken care of by relatives.
During their stay in Hong Kong, they turned from social history to the study of ideological history and conceptual history.
After 1989, the mainland ideological circle stopped and entered another stage, no longer paying attention to society and thought. But since 1998, there have been some new changes. With the deepening of reform and opening up, the conflict between economy, legal system and individual rights is deepening, and the management of publishing industry is gradually relaxed, thus a new trend of thought has emerged. With the promotion of relevant publishing houses, several old books of Jin Guantao and his wife in the 1980s have been republished in the Mainland, and some works that have not been published in the Mainland have also been published for the first time.
In 2008, after their retirement from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Mr. and Mrs. Jin Guantao were immediately hired as chair professors by Taiwan Province University of Political Science. In 2009, Mr. and Mrs. Jin Guantao officially settled in Taiwan Province Province, and resumed the study of social transformation, continuing the second Enlightenment that started in the 1980s but was interrupted. However, this Enlightenment originated from the study of modernity and made a deeper exploration of the Enlightenment in the 1980s. ..