Si̍t-chûn Movement

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Si̍t-chûn Movement (Chinese: 實存運動; Japanese: じつぞんうんどう), inasmuch as the Kyoto School, Neo-Confucianism and other prominent philosophical movements in the early-twentieth-century East Asia, is a significant philosophical movement during the Japanese colonial rule in Taiwan, in which the intellectuals in the 1920s formulated their reflections on the Taiwanese community through the western values and thoughts and wedged against the colonial domination and imperial assimilation. Si̍t-chûn Movement was intensely bond with political and cultural counter-imperialism, involving intellectuals e.g. Lin Mosei(zh:林茂生), Hung Yao-hsün(zh:洪耀勳), Wen Kwei Liao(zh:廖文奎), Mingdian Liu(zh:劉明電), Shao-Hsing Chen(zh:陳紹馨), Lin Qiu-wu(zh:林秋悟), Hsiang-yu Su(zh:蘇薌雨), Shenqie Zhang(zh:張深切), Chin-sui Hwang(zh:黃金穗), Shoki Coe(zh:黃彰輝), Isshū Yō(zh:楊杏庭), C K Wu(吳 振坤), and so forth. 'At the begin,' according to the Taiwanese cultural sociologist Ren-yi Liao (廖 仁義)'s 1988 grounding formulation, 'Taiwanese Philosophy has been a civil intellectual movement against domination, rather than an academic form of conception.'[1] 'Si̍t-chûn Movement', however, has yet ratified and systemically studied until 2014.[2][3][4]

'Si̍t-chûn' (實存) is a Taiwanese phonic understanding from the widely discussed concept 'Jitsuzon'(実存; じつぞん) in the 1930s Japanese intellectual circles; translated from 'Existenz' by Kyoto School philosopher

German Philosophy and variously adopted on the dialectics of self and the others, of master and serfdom, and sovereign beings 'Dasein'. Comparing to 'de:Existenzphilosophie', 'fr:L'existentialisme', 'Existentialism', and 'Jitsuzon', 'Si̍t-chûn' has its own intellectual and cultural understanding on the being in pursuit of counter-domination resistance and justice from its historical sediments as fragments of/f empires.[5] This may somehow refer to Iris Marion Young
's justice theory.

Theoretical Formulation

Si̍t-chûn Movement is an intellectual movement on practice, which intensely bond with counter-domination during the Japan colonial rule. Such a cultural and societal movement came along with the political defeat in pursuit of parliamentary autonomy Petition Movement for the Establishment of a Taiwanese Parliament(zh: 臺灣議會設置請願運動)) led by the Taiwanese bourgeois Chiang Wei-shui(zh:蔣渭水), Lin Hsien-tang(zh:林獻堂) and other activists against the colonial regulation 'Law No. 63'(zh:六三法). In 1920s, the Taiwanese Cultural Association(zh:台灣文化協會) galvanized the self-identification from the cultural and societal perspectives, through public lectures, publications, playlets and summer schools, in which intellectuals e.g. Lin Mosei(zh:林茂生), Shao-Hsing Chen(zh:陳紹馨), Lin Qiu-wu(zh:林秋悟) addressed in the public sphere; Lin Qiu-wu(zh:林秋悟) and Isshū Yō(zh:楊杏庭) were involved with student movements, and even Shenqie Zhang(zh:張深切) and Hsiang-yu Su(zh:蘇薌雨) were enlisted to militia resistance. As the Kyoto School, there lies with intellectual similarity yet different understanding on Taiwan philosophical topics from Si̍t-chûn Movement philosophers.

Existence and Truth

Phenomenology of Spirit.[7]

Education and Democracy

British philosopher

Japanese Empire was just the opposite: imperial ideology haunted with cultural discrimination and militarism obsession. Lin Mosei(zh:林茂生)'s dissertation 'Public Education in Formosa under the Japanese Administration - A Historical and Analytical Study of the Development and the Cultural Problems' (1929) elaborated from his supervisor John Dewey's horizon on education, and critique the overall public education in Taiwan under the Japanese colonial rule which suppressed the authentic language and cultural development and therefore led to discrimination. Taiwanese epistemologist Hsi-Heng Cheng(鄭喜恆) noted that 'Lin Mosei(zh:林茂生)'s critique on Japanese colonial rule was due to a universal value and democracy, rather than Taiwanese ethnic-nationalism sentiment.'.[8]

Individual and the Community

Hegelian idea that the state must be the intermediator reconciling conflicts and injustices, but also reckoned on John Locke's critique on absolute monarchy(which may implied the flaw of the Japanese imperialism and militantism). From Shao-Hsing Chen(zh:陳紹馨) and Wen Kwei Liao(zh:廖文奎)'s formulation, a Taiwanese community independent of empires seemed intellectually expected,[11] but failed with the postwar retrocession of Chiang Kai-shek authoritarian regime, that Wen Kwei Liao(zh:廖文奎) exiled to Hong Kong in the 1940s and Shao-Hsing Chen(zh:陳紹馨) flew to the US and became a sociologist on population after his doctorate in Princeton.[12]

Concurrence with the Kyoto School and the Neo-Confucianism

Some scholars of Si̍t-chûn Movement was apostles of the

Tanabe Hajime(ja:田邊元)'s 'species' (種) as medium but rather an existence in lifeworld, and thus he attempted to reformulate a Taiwanese community on its own historical and social formulation.[13]

Comparing to

Descartes comparison on conscience of Yangmingism 'liangzhi' than his Chinese contemporaries e.g. Liang Qichao(zh:梁啟超). Taiwanese philosophical significance which came along with particular historical experiences from the Qing magistrate to the Japanese colonial, embodied onto Lin Mosei(zh:林茂生) and other Taiwanese philosophers' thoughtsystem.[15]

Si̍t-chûn Movement (1916)
The Kyoto School (1914)
Neo-Confucianism (1921)
Content Formulating a Taiwanese community from the western value of education, culture, language, and politics under the colonial repression and assimilation. Reinvigorating Yamato tradition and
Jōdo
spirit through the Western philosophies.
Convergence with
Confucian
tradition in face of modern crisis.
Genealogy
Christian Theology
.
Christian Theology
American Pragmatism
Background Resistance against Japanese colonial domination Meiji westernization to Taisho cultivation Confucian renaissance responding to
Hu Shi(zh:胡適
) scientism and pragmatism since May Fourth Movement
Scholar Figures Lin Mosei(zh:林茂生), Hung Yao-hsün(zh:洪耀勳), Wen Kwei Liao(zh:廖文奎), Mingdian Liu(zh:劉明電), Shao-Hsing Chen(zh:陳紹馨), Lin Qiu-wu(zh:林秋悟), Hsiang-yu Su(zh:蘇薌雨), Shenqie Zhang(zh:張深切), Chin-sui Hwang(zh:黃金穗), Shoki Coe, Isshū Yō(zh:楊杏庭), C K Wu(吳 振坤) ) )

Sino-Japan War and the Postwar Following

Si̍t-chûn Movement had hibernated from the outbreak of Sino-Japan War in 1937 accelerated the '

February 28 Incident
.

Most of Si̍t-chûn philosophers suffered for the wartime and the suppression. A philosopher of Anthropology

February 28 Incident. Dong-fang Chang(zh:張冬芳) was mentally ill due to the White Terror prosecution. Wen Kwei Liao(zh:廖文奎), C K Wu(吳 振坤), Isshū Yō(zh:楊杏庭), Ai Chih Tsai(zh:蔡愛智), Su-Qing Lin(zh:林素琴), Shoki Coe left Taiwan. Shenqie Zhang(zh:張深切)'s 'Studies on Confucianism'(孔子哲學評論) (1954) was banned and his manuscript 'Studies on Laoziism'(老子哲學評論) was also unable to publish.[17]

Ren-yi Liao articulated that during the postwar

Chinese Philosophy as a whole; and considered that Philosophy in Taiwan would be 'rootless' if its academic disciplines drifted apart from its position.'[18] The 1996 Founding Proclamation of Taiwan Philosophical Association pinned on 'a civic movement on academic discourse of Taiwanese Philosophy in a various way of study and research.'.[19]
The interdisciplinary project on Taiwanese Philosophy held by Academia Sinica since 2017 has been unearthing the philosophical literature of pre-wartime Si̍t-chûn Movement and hence developed contemporary dialogues with intellectualism crisis.

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