英文摘要 |
During the Chinese Communist Revolution, emotions played a crucial role in the involvement of revolutionary youth in politics, their participation in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and the triumph of the revolution. This paper attempts to reconstruct the mechanism of emotion and the mental world of young urban students who had joined the CCP from a bottom-up perspective by analyzing the diary of Xu Banghe許邦和(1911–1934), a student at Jiao Tong University. In Xu’s diary, one can note that within the post-May Fourth Movement context, new literature was popular and youth faced specific experiences concerning family life and love after the“liberation”of their minds, all of which largely universalized the negative and romantic emotions of boredom and sentimentalism in urban life; moreover, after the Nationalist Revolution of the 1920s, their disappointment with social reality and dissatisfaction with daily life caused their value system to undergo an acute crisis. The popularity of revolutionary literature, increased reading of Marxist and leftist materials, and emotional frustration in quotidian life prompted Xu to reflect bitterly on his“bourgeois”background. In the process of overcoming his sentimentalism, he attempted to escape the bitterness and triviality of daily life through reading and theoretical contemplation, strengthening his will to join the political movement of resistance. He hoped to join a more egalitarian organization, a shelter for his emotions, and to seek a new way of life and a just cause for the future through the organization in order to overcome his sentimentalism. |