Serving in the military and then joining the academy, Xu Fukuan had led a complicated intellectual life. Once studying economics at Meji University, and then he attended Imperial Japanese Army Academy. Later, as Xu Fukuan got involved more in the politics, the plight of his time urged him to devote into the intellectual and philosophical searching. The legitimate crisis of the Nationalist government, the anxiety of the modernity, and the reflection on the Chinese philosophy, constructed the core motivation of Xu Fukuan's new Confucianism.
In his academic discourse, Xu Fukuan has especially focused on the Han Dynasty philosophy, which has not always been considered as the main stream of the traditional Chinese philosophy studies. In addition, Xu Fukuan established Democratic Critics, converted religious theory of the Confucianism, and developed the spirit of humanity. What Xu Fukuan intended to exert is to respond to the legitimacy crisis of the Republic.
Daring to be expressive during the Martial Law era, achieving inter-disciplinary outcomes, and launching debates on the academic fields, Xu Fukuan's has become a stark case in the south bounding exile contexts since 1949.
This dissertation aims to problematize Xu Fukuan's diasporic experience and to discuss how he occupied a specific position on the discursive field as a representative figure of the new Confucianism. And attempt to deal with the characteristics and construction of Xu Fukuan's thinking since after 1949, in order to observe Xu's discursive position in the intellectual history.