近代中国的“少年论述”与现代民族国家想象

The “Juvenile Discourse”in Modern China and the Imagination of a Modern Nation-state

近代中国"少年"与国家形象发生联系,本质上不再是一个年龄范畴,而是一个历史、政治和文化概念,隐喻一个朝气蓬勃、革新进步的"少年中国"。近代中国"少年论述"的兴起,源于梁启超的《少年中国说》,更源于近代中国对"少年"的发现与重视。近代有识之士通过文学翻译或创作,将"少年"与新民、新国、民族复兴等意象联系起来,参与近代中国"少年"的精神世界建构和现代民族国家想象。

The"Youth"of modern China was related to the national image,no longer a concept of age in essence,but a historical,political and cultural one that symbolized a vigorous,innovative and progressive"Young China". The rise of "Juvenile Discourse"in modern China has benefited from Liang Qichao’s Ode to a Young China,and even more benefited from the discovery and emphasis on"young people"in modern China. By means of literary translation or creation,people of insight in modern China connected the"youth"with the images of the new people,the new country and the national rejuvenation,and participated in the imagination of a modern nation-state as well as the spiritual construction of"youth"in modern China.