从边缘到中心:《独立评论》的创办宗旨

From Margin to Center: the Purpose of Independent Critique Established by Hu Shi and Other Intellectuals

近代社会的转型,造成了知识分子的“边缘化”,同时也带来了知识分子重新走向“中心”的凭借——近代报刊。胡适等自由知识分子创办《独立评论》的宗旨,就是要从社会的“边缘”走向“中心”。他们希望以“独立”的旗帜、“负责任的言论”,带动一种新的政治力量,以求在社会“中心”占一席之地,进而把“任何党派”和“任何成见”都纳入自己的麾下,或者至少给它们的社会走向以一定影响。之所以如此,是因为他们逐渐形成了一种自觉的社会“中心”意识。

The intellectuals in China were marginalized because of modern social transition, and at the same time, modern newspapers and periodicals were turned into carriers that made intellectuals move towards 'center'. The intellectuals, who were keen on liberty like Hu Shi, established Independent Critique, whose purpose was to call forth the intellectuals to enter the'center'of the society from its 'margin'. They hoped to bring along new political powers with independent banner and conscientious opinions,so that they could occupy space in the'center'of the society, bring any party and any prejudice into their own commands or at least influence the direction of the society to some extent. The reason why they did this was that they gradually formed self-consciousness of social'center'.