咱们的教科书,总是强调五四新文化运动与中国传统的断裂。我们描述出一个学习西方器物、学习西方制度、学习西方文化的近代思想史脉络,将五四运动的“文化”思路看作是对历代思想家的断裂和超越,高高置于峰巅。台湾学者王德威却说,没有晚清,哪来五四?这个观点意在强调,五四时期的许多思想,与晚清几代学人的思想和探索,具有割不断的血肉联系。这种看法值得我们认真对待。 Our textbooks always stress the May Fourth New Culture Movement and the break of Chinese tradition. We describe a context of modern history of learning Western artifacts, studying Western institutions and learning Western cultures. We regard the “culture” mentality of the May 4th Movement as a fracture and surpassing of ancient thinkers, placing them high on the summit. Wang Dewei, a Taiwan scholar, said that in the absence of the late Qing dynasty, this idea was intended to emphasize that many ideas of the May 4th Movement had a flesh-and-blood relationship with the thoughts and explorations of scholars in later Qing dynasties. This view deserves our serious consideration.