1977年，在胡蘭成的啟發與朱西甯的帶領下，一群青年學子，發起了《三三集刊》。此文學雜誌除提供一創作園地外，亦帶有深刻的中國傳統儒士色彩，他們之於文學、社會的各式問題討論，亦帶有替精神導師胡蘭成思想再闡發論述的意味。想為中國養三千個士的三三文學集團，曾於集團討論會上，發出「三三每一個人都要作士」之豪語。為什麼在西風東漸的七○年代臺灣，三三人非做「士」不可？這「士」與西方的「知識份子」可有區別？本文將集刊中成員，於「士」的定位，拿來與西方知識份子相關理論做對話，發現了一爭奪現象，到底兩者為何而爭？「士」與「知識份子」所堅持的，又有何差異？皆為本文欲探討之處。

In 1977, with Hu, Lan Cheng and Zhu, His Ning's leading and enlightenment, a group of young intellectuals founded the "San San Literary Periodical." The collected papers were filled with traditional oriental intellectual's styles. Besides, various kinds of discourses from literature to social problems were all included. This publication was not only the land for literary creations but also the land for the elaboration of the theory of Hu, Lan Cheng-their spiritual mentor.Once the saying, "Every one of the San San Literary Group has to be an oriental intellectual." was brought up in the meeting of San San Literary Group, which intended to become a three-thousand-intellectual literary group.The reasons why all the members of this group in the 70's Taiwan have to be the oriental intellectuals, especially in such an occidentalizing society at that time, and the distinction between the intellectuals in the east and the west are going to be discussed in this article. Furthermore, a contending is found in the comparison between the definitions to the oriental intellectual in the San San Literary Periodical and the theories related to this topic in the west. This article is going to look deep into the conflict and try to find out what the two sides insisted on.