20世纪初叶,在民族危机日益加深的中国,知识界一些有识之士莫不以救亡图存为己任。在后来被誉为是“学界泰斗”的蔡元培,正是在这一时代背景下,开始走上从近代西方文化中探寻救国救民真理之路的代表之一。他是一位既有深厚的传统文化根底,又能不断用新知识、新思想来充实自己的学人。在民族危亡之际,他抛弃清朝翰林院编修的高位,接触新学,注目世界,兴办教育,培养人才,为中国的近代化作出了突出贡献。 In the early twentieth century, in the deepening ethnic crisis in China, some people of insight in the intellectual life can not save their own lives as their own responsibility. In the background of this era, Cai Yuanpei, later known as the “academic world leader,” began to embark on one of the representatives from the modern Western culture to explore the truth of salvation. He is both a profound traditional culture foundation, but also continue to use new knowledge, new ideas to enrich their own scholars. On the occasion of the nation’s demise, he abandoned the high places compiled by the Hanlin Academy in the Qing Dynasty, exposed new schools, focused the world, established education and trained personnel, and made outstanding contributions to China’s modernization.