Research On Chen Duxiu, A Journalist In The Republic Of China

Chen duxiu,a political character of great importance and influence in modern Chinese history,also a journalist who can not be ignored when study personages in the history of Chinese Journalism,especially in the era of the Chinese Republic.Different from political science which study character politically,the paper aims to probe into the journalism practice and activities that Chen was involved in.Based on full study of those activities,the paper places extra emphasis on the relationships between Chen's journalism activities and early journalism framework and management of the CPC and the Comintern.Those issues have failed to receive fair share of attention in former relevant studies while somehow become unavoidable to be ignored by now.By looking into those issues,we expect to measure and judge as completely and just as possible Chen's characteristic and gain and loss as a journalist.The paper studies Chen's journalism in three aspects:journalism path,journalism activity and journalism ideology,of which also consist the logical clue of the main body of the article.The paper first studies the journalism path of Chen duxiu and the reason of the four transformations through which he transformed from a kang-liang follower to a revolutionary,then to a communist,finally a Trotskyite.The paper believes that Chen duxiu's journalism path transformed as his political ideology and actions varied in different eras."change as time goes" also says a lot about his political ideology feature.The paper goes on to research the social background,ideological basis,main move and basic content of the CPC journalism framework and management which was first founded by Chen duxiu while he was named general secretary of the CPC party.Chen duxiu paid close attention to the systematical running of journalism with Party paper at the core and dug up the usage of journalism through system construction on the stage of communist revolution.He did significant work for the early framework of journalism of the CPC.The paper then studies the relationship between Chen duxiu and the Comintern and Chen's performance in the related journalism activities in which he rejected,accepted and finally fought with.The paper believes that it was an era in which Chen duxiu sought for the independence of Chinese communist revolution and its journalism disseminating but failed at last.In the end,the paper explores the journalism ideology of Chen duxiu,makes it clear that his core journalism ideology proposition is "politic be standard,journalism be instrument".The paper analyses the origin and changing of his ideology and its main feature,his ideology transforming from scholar politic under bourgeois democratic framework to socialist revolutionary journalism that overran the political framework of the time.The changing of Chen's journalism ideology marks the rising of early Chinese Marxism journalism thought.The cognition and assessment of "journalist" Chen duxiu is the summary and subliming of the whole text.The paper believes that Chen duxiu is an intellectual journalist who has his own political pursuit.He is not willing to be a subordinate in politic.His keen sense of politic has made him able to voice for the era and become CPC's early journalism system founder.However,he was washed out by era waves when he chose to be a Trotskyite and finally a tragic journalist who couldn't realize his dream.Chen duxiu's tragic destiny that started from leading an era to being washed out by the era reflected courage and endeavor that the intellectuals showed at that time transforming from running newspapers to actually taking part in the revolution when they were striving for independence and survival,also exposed their historical limits when involved in real political battles.Chen duxiu was a special individual as well as a representative in modern Chinese journalism history.He signified the perplexed features that the political journalist who believed in "politic be standard,journalism be instrument" presented during the modern politic and newspaper transforming.The cognition and assessment for these journalist should comply with the basic principles and rules of dialectical materialism and historical materialism.We can not ignore the objective advancing of history.We should think from their prospective,try our best to make a thorough inquiry into the relations between their personal features,political plight,state awareness,even international politics when choosing their way of journalism,and give them a thorough and objective historical judgment.