Late Qing To The May 4th Get Rid Of The Three Families Face

"Abolishing the family " is the main point of this dissertation. From late Qing Dynasty to May 4th, discussion of "abolishing the family" is a very important issue. Those writers at that time hope to refresh the institution of the nation. Abolishing the family is a kind of idea. This idea can be discussed in the system:individual/family/nation/world. So, abolishing the family has three faces.The first face is that those writers want to abolish the family in order to build relationship between the individual and the world directly. Representative Men of this idea is Kang Youwei and Tan Sitong. The second face is that the writers want to abolish the family in order to build the relationship between the individual and the nation directly. Liang Qichao, Cai Yuanpei and Qiujin is the model of this idea. Liang Qichao and Cai Yuanpei hope to build the relationship between the individual and the nation; however Qiujin hopes to build the relationship between the woman and the nation. The third face is that those writers want to abolish the family in order to liberate the individual, because they all think individual is repressed by the family. Xu Zhenya and Bao Tianxiao stand between the new thoughts and the old thoughts, so they abolish the family by means of preserving the family. Hushi is the representative men of the new thoughts, so he abolishes the family directly.How do the writers deliver the messages of abolishing the family to the masses? They choose the novel. Huang Zunxian has written a Japanese History; Kang Youwei has interpreted the canons. Liang Qichao has started to write a novel. From then on. novel has become popular in the 20th century in China. Novel has become the new canon in the 20th century. Those writers hope to enlighten the masses by means of novels. Those writers hope to enlighten the masses. However, they have not defended the drawbacks. The key notion of enlightening is that those writers want to abolish the difference between the philosophers and the masses. Philosophers can be requested as such, however, the masses can not be requested as such.In a word, this dissertation has attempted to re-rewrite the literature history. From 1949, the modern Chinese literature history has changed paradigm twice. Professor Wangyao has established a kind of paradigm of modern Chinese literature history. The foundation of this book is two papers written by Mao Zedong. From the eighties, many professors such as Chen Sihe, Wang Xiaoming, have raised a notion "rewriting the literature history". From then on, a new paradigm has been set up. However, this model has two disadvantages. One is this model can not distinguish the critical moment in the twenties century. The other is that the scholars emphasize the de-politicization too much. So they abandon the Chinese traditional "poetry education" which is connected with politics originally.So, this dissertation aims at those two disadvantages. Three critical moments has been raised and connected together, Late Qing Dynasty, Republic of China and May 4th. Secondly, this dissertation tries to come back to the traditional "poetry education" which connects with the politics originally.