An Analysis of Interaction between Jiang Shaoyuan and Cai Yuanpei:From the Perspective of Folklores
Jiang Shaoyuan,as an intellectual in the era of post-May Fourth New Culture Movement,experi-enced a transformation of identity from an auditor at Peking University to a folklorist.His choice of path demonstrated the growth of a new generation of scholars at Peking University.Through the analysis of his-torical materials about Jiang Shaoyuan's interaction with Cai Yuanpei during his studies and academic ca-reer,this study explores how he pursued identity and self-formation in the time changing.During the social transformation from traditional to modern China in the first half of the 20th century,Jiang Shaoyuan's in-teraction with Cai Yuanpei also,from the perspective of promotion and pursuit of folklores in China,re-flected the commonalities between the two generations of scholars at Peking University in terms of identity recognition and academic philosophy.