This all seems to go back to what Li Zehou has called China's "Variations on Enlightenment and National Salvation" in which the former always suffers for the sake of the latter.
這些也似乎都可以回溯到大陸當代思想家李澤厚所說的「啟蒙與救亡的雙重變奏」，而且他們總是為了成全後者（救國）而委屈前者（啟蒙）。