湖畔风云——经亨颐与浙江五四新文化运动(上)

Jing Hengyi and May 4th New Culture Movement in Zhejiang Province (Part Ⅰ)

经亨颐是民初浙江省教育界的一位关键人物。经由他及其同仁的实践,民初浙省教育会的地位有显著提升,省会杭州地方的政学权力格局也相应发生了改变。而在思想理念上,民元以降浙江教育界内部的差异,整体上尚未固化为明确的新旧"派别"或"代际"分野。这一点到1918年开始发生变化,即浙江开始介入欧战结束后掀动的思想教育"新潮"。因理念进一步转为实践,"预流"各方的分歧开始凸显,"新旧"之争亦有了地方性的表现。但1919年5-6月间波及杭州的反日爱国运动,对浙江教育界而言基本表现为一段政治性质的"意外"或"插曲"。经亨颐及其同仁下一步要面对的问题,便是这段"插曲"对于已起之教育革新究竟是构成挫折还是助力。

Jing Hengyi was a key figure in the educational circle of Zhejiang Province in the early Republic of China.With the efforts made both by him and his colleagues,the status of Zhejiang Provincial Education Association was significantly promoted at that time,and the local political and academic power structure of Hangzhou,the provincial capital,changed accordingly.With regard to the thoughts and ideas,the differences within the educational circle in Zhejiang Province since the first year of the Republic of China had not yet solidified into a clear distinction between old and new'schools'or'generations',which,nevertheless,began to change in 1918,that is,Zhejiang began to participate in the'new trend'of thoughts and education after the end of the First World War.As relevant ideas further turned into practice,the divergence between the'participants'became prominent,and the debate between the'old'and the'new'also had local manifestations.However,the anti-Japanese patriotic movement that spread to Hangzhou from May to June in the year 1919 was basically a political'accident'or'interlude'for the educational circle in Zhejiang.The next problem that Jing Hengyi and his colleagues had to face was whether this interlude would constitute a setback or a boost to the educational innovation that had started.