“五四”与中国社会变迁:从知识人的婚姻人生说起

Marriage Life and Social Change of Modern China: Some Cases of Modern Intellectuals

身处新文化浪潮的五四知识人,浴身于"家庭革命"的洪流里,面对婚姻这项与一己切身相关的议题,固然力图"冲决网罗",却难一刀断水。胡适及他的朋友,都是五四新文化运动中的耀眼明星,生命道路自有千秋,如何处理自己的终身大事,人人煞费思量,各有曲折。他们的婚姻,固然未必都曾闹出一番轰轰烈烈的"家庭革命";个人追求理想和面对现实考验的心路历程,却都经历了多重曲折与反复。了解五四知识人的婚姻人生,怀想他们做出最后决定的心衷,正值得后来者再三沉吟反思,也可以让我们从个体生命史的角度,认识五四新文化运动。

Amid the wave of "family revolution" during the New Culture Movement,the May-Fourth generation of intellectuals sought to break away from traditions and conventions with decisions in their marriages.But they soon found the status quo too resilient to be severed.As the brightest intellectual stars of the time,Hu Shih and his peers worked painstakingly for ways out of their predicaments in marriage.Not all of them embarked on revolutions within their families,but they all experienced back-and-forths between idealistic pursuits and challenges in reality.Looking into the May-Fourth intellectuals’ experiences of marriage,we not only reconstruct the thought processes towards their respective decisions.These histories of individual lives also shed new lights on the May-Fourth New Culture Movement.