 The epistemological discourses of the 20th century current of the so-called Modern or New Confucianism (Xin ruxue 新儒學) were rooted in the specific features of traditional Chinese epistemological thought and defined by a search for fruitful amalgamation with contemporary Western theories of knowledge. In this field, they were most interested in the relation between reason and intuition, for the latter concept belongs to principle traditional epistemological notions, and the former to the concepts that are crucial for the establishment of modernization theories. The Western notion of intuition came to China in close connection and with many connotations arising from Henri Bergson’s vitalism, was translated by the neologism zhijue 直覺. 