香港华商总会对五四在地化的迎拒

A Study on the Attitudes of Chinese Chamber of Commerce towards Localization of May 4th Movement in Hong Kong

热衷孔教的香港华商,与前清遗老在香港塑造出一股保守的民族主义,令五四新文化运动久久未能进入香港。然而华商总会的核心人物对于五四的态度不是单一或铁板一块的,并且前后期的核心人物对五四有不同的迎拒态度--由新旧难存到新旧并存。后期华商总会主席黄广田便特意聘请爱好新文化的文人在《华商总会月刊》担任编辑,并设有文艺专栏刊载新文学文章。这既是时移世易后新领导人的个人思想世界发生的变化,也是因应港府外交策略的改弦易辙而有趋向新文化运动的因时制宜,诸种问题实关系到香港社会内部以至中国国内政局的复杂转变。

Chinese businessmen from Hong Kong who were keen on Confucianism, together with the old adherents of Qing Dynasty, developed a conservative nationalism in Hong Kong, which prevented the May 4 th New Culture Movement from entry for a long time. However, the attitudes of the core figures in Chinese Chamber of Commerce towards the May 4 th Movement were free from high consensus and they differed in the early and later periods, from non-coexistence to coexistence between the old and the new. Later, Huang Guangtian, chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, for this purpose, invited literati who were interested in the new culture to edit the Chinese Chamber of Commerce Monthly and set up a literary column to publish new literary articles. This resulted not only from the change of the new leaders’ personal ideological world in the new era, but also from the change of the diplomatic strategy of Hong Kong government and the trend towards the New Culture Movement. All of these issues are truly related to the complex changes in the internal society of Hong Kong and the domestic political situation of China.