《学衡》与“新文化派”的缠斗

The Tussle between The Critical Review and the New Culture Faction

《学衡》诸将向新文化派炮火全开之时,新文化运动的高潮已过,而且以胡适为代表的《新青年》诸人,对新文化运动的取向并不认同,行动上也比较疏离,很少正面回应《学衡》的挑衅。从《学衡》前的各自为战,到《学衡》的正面进攻,再到《学衡》之外的全面攻防,吴宓等人始终缠斗不已,源于哈佛与哥伦比亚两校留美学生的宿怨。其痛批的要点不在新旧之争,而是如何才能融贯会通中西新旧,创新文化。不认可以《新青年》为代表的“新文化”,并不等于反对新文化,所以时论仍然视为新文化运动中的异调。

By the time the fellows of The Critical Review学衡launched a full-scale attack againstthe New Culture faction,the high tide of the New Culture Movement had passed.Moreover,the fellows of La Jeunesse新青年,represented by Hu Shi胡适,did not agree with the direction of the New Culture Movement,and acted in a more detached manner,seldom responding directly to the provocations of The Critical Review.Originated in a long-standing rivalry between Chinese students who studied in Harvard University and Columbia University,the tussle between Wu Mi吴宓and his fellows and the New Culture Faction was incessant within and beyond The Critical Review.The main point of the criticism was not the dispute between the old and the new,but how to integrate the old and the new and innovate the culture.Disapproving the new culture that represented by La Jeunesse was not equivalent to Anti-New Culture.Consequently,the arguments of The Critical Review were regarded as a different tune in the New Culture Movement.