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Author(s)
JI Bin, BU Yansong, YE Shu
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2177/2023.11.005
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Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
ABSTRACT
In the evolution of modern railway thought, it includes not only the discussion of railway planning, sovereignty, debt, and construction, but also the discussion of spiritual guiding ideology such as “Tao, body and utility” and “material and spirit”. From the perspective of the relationship between road and equipment, the development of modern railway thought in China has experienced three stages. During the Westernization Movement, Li Hongzhang and other people expounded the benefits brought by railway construction from the angle of “utility”, and believed that there was still a unity of “Tao and style”. After the Sino-Japanese Naval Battle, with the emergence of the theory of railway sovereignty and the theory of dividing China, Kang Youwei and others questioned the thought of Westernization school. The unified Tao body was divided into two parts: China and the West. After the May Fourth Movement, railway, as a product of western material civilization, was compared with Eastern spiritual civilization by Liang Shuming, Li Dazhao, and others. The conflict between material and spirit made the Western “Tao style” evolve into the Europe-American way of pursuing “scientific spirit” and the Soviet-Russian way of exploring the ideas of revolution and transformation. The railway has thus become an important carrier of the “scientific spirit” and socialism
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the history of railways in China, instruments, Westernization group, reformers, revolutionary party, Euro-American road, Soviet-Russian road, Tao
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