Abstract:

Among our nation's famous scholars engaging in humanities, the most attractive of their academic spirits is XU Zhong-yu's "awareness of concern", a kind of Confucian spirit that has a strong demand to get involved in reality. For XU Zhong-yu, this awareness is a humane complex all along his life instead of a changing fashion. Accordingly, it finds expressions in his striking consciousness of problems, critical attitude, independent personality, and practice to get through a line of demarcation between disciplines.

Key words: XU Zhong-yu, academic spirit, career full of concerns