Research On The Passing Short Decade

The Passing Short Decade written by Ye Yongzhen was sensational after being published by the Shanghai Chunchao Book Bureau in 1929.Lu Xun once wrote "Introductory note " for him and praised: "He depicted the hearts of young people who bear tradition and are stirred by the trend of world's thoughts.He wrote step by step without concealment or embellishment.Although occasionally there are several excuses,and these excuses make him out of his original self-attribute.At least,this will undoubtedly be a mirror for the present and a record for the future”.And this has great significance value for revolutionary thought,research on writers and modern literature,but there is not much research on Ye Yongzhen's literary creation in academic circles.For those rare academic papers involving Ye Yongzhen and his literary creation,only due to that Lu Xun once wrote " Introductory note " for his work--The Passing Short Decade,and they take them as part of the study of Lu Xun's character and ideological content.It can be said that there are almost no academic papers and works to study Ye Yongzhen and his literary works alone.This paper takes Ye Yongzhen's The Passing Short Decade as the main object of study,and focuses on Ye Yongzhen's literary creation to return to the text itself.The first chapter probes into the description of love and revolution in The Passing Short Decade----An autobiographical novel with the theme of the Great Revolution era,which shows the course of intellectual youth's constant exploration of themselves and the changing revolutionary spirit in the alternation of old and new,the old tradition and the new trend of thought with the stroke of plain sincerity and great spirit of the times through sorting out the plot and content of The Passing Short Decade,exploring the commonalities of the prose collection----A Life of Wandering and The Passing Short Decade,as well as the communication between Lu Xun and Ye Yongzhen,Lu Xun's realistic creative techniques,the portrayal of young intellectuals and the influence of artistic methods on Ye Yongzhen.This second chapter is a study of the changes in the versions of The Passing Short Decade.Through combing the pedigree of the versions of The Passing Short Decade,this paper makes a detailed textual research,collation and proofreading of the sub-texts and the main texts of different versions of The Passing Short Decade,and produces a proofreading record.Apart from that,it collates and analyses the differences between different versions from the perspectives of editology,creation,communication,linguistics,rhetoric and hermeneutics,so as to clarify the reliable text of The Passing Short Decade,fill in the blank area of research on Ye Yongzhen's literary creation,perfect the study,discussion of Ye Yongzhen and his creative life,as well as strive to achieve the goal of supplementing and promoting the research value of Chinese modern and contemporary novels.