Based on the summary of the works on “humanism studies” of chinese scholars in recent one hundred years, this paper explains the connotation of “humanistic spirit” and the relationship between natural sciences and humane studies, discusses the methods and skills to embody humanistic spirit in popular science writing, and quoated in particular the writing examples of the famous modern popular science writers to support its points.

Through argumentation we can obtain the following three viewpoints from the paper: (1) As early as at the beginning of 20th century, scholars entered into the subject of science and humaneness and put forth many important works; (2) Since 1930s, the works of the famous popular science writers in China reflecfed the humanistic spirit; (3) Spreading science and technology, if the popular science works can make readers realize the human value and dignity, as well as “the principle of being a human,” that means they basically show the combinafion of the spirit of science and humanism.

humane studies  /  humanistic spirit  /  popular science writing