五四时期青年的形象塑造——以青年学生自杀事件为例

A Study on the Youth Status and Images Construction from May 4^(th) Movement

五四时期是中国社会的一个重要转型期,在这个时期新旧思想交替,社会秩序混乱,传统与现代相互较量,社会问题亦层出不穷,自杀现象成为当时社会的一个重要问题。青年学生是当时社会的希望,被视为社会活力的象征,天然地承担了拯救国家命运,挽救民族危亡的历史使命,他们的自杀更是引起社会的广泛关注。激烈的自杀方式、悲愤的遗书如同表演一样将青年个人自杀事件带入公共领域,是青年对自我形象的一种建构;而作为观众的社会各界通过媒体报道、追悼会纪念、公共讨论更是对青年有着不同的形象塑造。

The May 4th period was an important transition period, during which obsolete traditional ideas were replaced by modern new ones, the society was out of order, tradition competed with modern, social problems emerged in endlessly, among which suicide became a serious problem. Since the youth who was the image of vitality was called ＂the hope of society＂, they took the ability of saving the nation in peril society. In the nature of things, their suicide would draw extensive attention, which was brought to public in a violent way with lament and resent posthumous papers. While they were self--positioning, people from all walks of life built different images of them through press reports,memorial meetings and discussions by great thinkers.