Theme: New School and Old School in the May 4th Enlightenment Movement
Speaker: Professor Xu Jilin and Ph.D. supervisor of Zijiang, East China Normal University
Organizer: Puppet Manchu Palace Museum
Co-sponsors: School of Literature, Northeast Normal University, College of Political Science and Law, College of History and Culture, College of Foreign Languages and Software, College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering and School of Economic Management, College of Foreign Languages, Changchun University of Technology and College of Architecture, Changchun University of Technology Institute of Italian Industry, Changchun Museum Alliance Unit
Lecture time: Tuesday, March 26, 2019, at 13:30 p.m.
Lecture venue: Academic lecture hall on the second floor of Northeast Occupied History Exhibition Hall, Puppet Manchuria Palace Museum
Guest Profile:
Professor Xu Jilin was admitted to the Department of Political Education of East China Normal University in 1977. He was the first university student after the Cultural Revolution. After graduation, he stayed in school to teach. In 1985, he studied for postgraduate students majoring in the history of modern Chinese political thought in East China Normal University. In 1993, he served as Secretary-General of Shanghai History Society. In 1997, he was transferred to the Department of History, Shanghai Normal University. In 2002, he returned to the History Department of East China Normal University, his alma mater. He is currently the appointed professor of Zijiang, Ph.D. supervisor of the Department of History of East China Normal University, deputy director of the Institute of Modern Chinese Thought and Culture, the Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, and the Chinese director of the Joint Research Center of Modern China and the World of East China Normal University-British Columbia University. He also serves as the decision-making department of the United Front Department of the Central Committee of the Comm Members of the Advisory Expert Group, Vice-President of Shanghai History Society, and Director of the Chinese History Society hold many social positions. He has served as visiting professor or or senior visiting Sciences at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Australian National University, Singapore National University, Harvard University of the United States, Taiwan Institute of Central Studies, British Columbia University of Canada, French Academy of Social Sciences, Aichi University of Japan, Tokyo University, Berlin Free University of Germany. People.
Professor Xu is mainly engaged in the study of the history of Chinese thought and intellectuals in the twentieth century. His representative works include "Ten Treatises on Chinese Intellectuals", "Intellectuals in the Great Age", "Third Dignity", "How to Return from Death to Life in Enlightenment", "Public Interaction of Modern Chinese Intellectuals", "The World: Individuals, Countries and World Identity of Modern China". 》 And dozens of other academic works. Since 1980s, Professor Xu has been paying close attention to the frontiers of academic circles and cultural hotspots. He has been one of the most influential historians in contemporary China.
Review of the Forum:
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the May 4th Movement. The May 4th Enlightenment movement a hundred years ago and the May 4th Spirit it represents still inspire the Chinese people today. How did the May 4th Movement come into being? Who participated? What other unheard-of historical details lie behind the debate between the old and the new factions? On the afternoon of March 26, Professor Xu Jilin, a Ph.D. supervisor and Professor Zijiang of East China Normal University, was invited to hold a special academic lecture on "New and Old School in the May 4th Enlightenment Movement" at the Changchun Wenbo Forum sponsored by the Puppet Manchu Palace Museum.
Centuries ago, the New Culture Movement had three debates around the old and new cultures and the Chinese and Western cultures: the scolding battle between New Youth and Lin Qinnan, the debate between Chen Duxiu and Du Yaquan, and the debate between Zhang Dongsun of the Department of Chinese and Western Culture and Fu Sinian of the Research Department of New Trend. The "new youth" represented by Chen Duxiu and Hu Shi are called "the new school", and their opponents in the debate have long been regarded as the conservative old school. But whether it is Lin Qinnan, Du Yaquan or Liang Qichao, the spiritual leader of the research department, who came from the old school camp, were recognized as new figures in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, belonging to the "new school in the old school". Only when a new generation of intellectuals emerged did they become "old", but they still had a "new" trend.
In the late Qing Dynasty, these "new factions in the old factions" were called "old and new parties" in the early years of the Republic of China. The "Old and New Party" is the contempt of the May 4th intellectuals for the new factions of the late Qing Dynasty. In their view, it is not enough to show their new factions without classifying their parents who enlightened them as the old factions. This is a common phenomenon of "patricide" in the history of ideology. Only by overthrowing the fathers can we grow up. However, the new youth of the May 4th Movement also know that in the eyes of the general public, Liang Qichao still belongs to the new faction after all. Therefore, they were given a nickname of "old new party" as "new party", but they are outdated, not new enough and not thorough enough. This mixed feeling of old and new is definitely not shared by Chen Duxiu, Hu Shi and Fu Sinian. During the May 4th Movement, they were confident, sunny and arrogant of the older generation, believing that only they represented the future of culture. Only Lu Xun, who has a strong sense of self-reflection, is alert to the dark side of his soul. He claims that he is only a transitional generation. "He carries the burden of inheritance, shoulders the gate of darkness, and lets them go to a broad and bright place." Like Hu Shinian and Fu Sinian, it was ten years after the May 4th Movement that the rising of the new revolutionary generation would overthrow itself before they admitted that "our ideas are new and our beliefs are new; we are totally Westernized in our thinking; but where we live, we are still traditional Chinese".
In terms of knowledge, there is not much difference between the two generations of enlighteners in the May 4th period. Therefore, young local readers are inclusive of their magazines and accept them as a whole of new knowledge. Since knowledge is new,