摘要
CHEN DUXIU:AN EVwith a subject of great interest to Chinese academic circles.Wang argues that Chen,as a leader of the May Fourth Movement and one of the founders of the CPC,was anoutstanding figure in the modern history of China,who made great contributions tothe progress of Chinese society.However,towards the later stage of the Great Revo-lution (1924-27) he made several rightist errors and then,after the revolution’s defeat,he degenerated from a Marxist to a Trotskyist, organized a Trotskyist group and op-posed the CPC.Despite repeated efforts to save him he rejected the Party’s criti-cisms.The Party’s Central Committee was right in making the decision to expel him.After his release from prison in 1937,Chen split with the Trotskyists organizationallyand during the war against Japan showed his patriotism by supporting the national causebut continued to be divorced from the masses.He was still a Trotskyist ideologicallyopposed to the Party’s policy of a national united front.He disregarded,even slan-dered,the guerrilla war conducted by the CPC.Becoming more and more pessimisticabout the future of the war of resistance,Chen spent the end of his life in loneli-ness,sadness and despair.
CHEN DUXIU:AN EV with a subject of great interest to Chinese academic circles.Wang argues that Chen, as a leader of the May Fourth Movement and one of the founders of the CPC,was an outstanding figure in the modern history of China,who made great contributions to the progress of Chinese society.However,towards the later stage of the Great Revo- lution (1924-27) he made several rightist errors and then,after the revolution’s defeat, he degenerated from a Marxist to a Trotskyist, organized a Trotskyist group and op- posed the CPC.Despite repeated efforts to save him he rejected the Party’s criti- cisms.The Party’s Central Committee was right in making the decision to expel him. After his release from prison in 1937,Chen split with the Trotskyists organizationally and during the war against Japan showed his patriotism by supporting the national cause but continued to be divorced from the masses.He was still a Trotskyist ideologically opposed to the Party’s policy of a national united front.He disregarded,even slan- dered,the guerrilla war conducted by the CPC.Becoming more and more pessimistic about the future of the war of resistance,Chen spent the end of his life in loneli- ness,sadness and despair.
