Is the thread saving from extinction or building a rich and strong country to master Yanfu s politcal thought? This thesis insists that the latter is more important than the former in Yanfu s aims,and the most important aim of Yanfu is in pursuit of perfect social order,which Yanfu insists in all his life.

Through studying Yan Fu s translation of John Mill s classic On Liberty,the author intends to analyze his understanding about "liberty" related to China s prosperity based on previous studies.

Chinese socialism modernization strategy aim has undergone a process -from industrialization to four-modernizations,and to unification of prosperity,democracy and civilization.

Mao ze-dong put forward to the modernization stratedgy, Deng xiaoping expound the strategy s process, Jian ze-min holds and develops Mao and Deng s prosperous and powerful thinking.

Therefore he began the creation of Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio with the aim of casting the economic predicament, leading those kinds of intellectuals as him many other ways of seeking wealth and becoming prosperous, expressing the inner idea .