Professor Wu Chan-liang of NTU's history department takes the view that what was created in the closing years of the Qing and the early years of the Republic by the intelligentsia's complete reappraisal of the past and their yearning for something new, was a loathing for tradition combined with a very superficial understanding of the West.
台灣大學歷史系副教授吳展良認為，清末民初知識界對過去徹底反省，與對新事物的嚮往，造成的是對舊社會的厭惡，與對西方的一知半解。