A Probe Into The Political Proposition Of Jiayin Magazine (Monthly Magazine)

Jiayin was first published in Tokyo,Japan,on May 10,1914.After the fourth issue,it stopped publishing for half a year and moved to Shanghai from the fifth issue.After the tenth issue,it was suspended because of the ban on September 22,1915.On the day Jiayin started its publication,at the time of great turning point in Chinese history,the struggle between democracy and republicanism,the fierce confrontation between old and new ideas,the collision of Chinese and Western cultures,and the turbulence of the current situation made the ideological and cultural circles in the early Republic of China uncertain.In this case,Jiayin became an important position for the advanced intellectuals who were exiled and studying in Japan after the failure of the Second Revolution to explore the way out for the nation and express their personal thoughts.Jiayin magazine’s colleagues discussed the hot issues in the political arena at that time,such as National Sports Discussion Campaign,Confucianism Movement and Federation.Even after Jiayin was forced to stop publishing,its peer groups continued to influence China’s political and ideological trends in various ways.Generally speaking,Jiayin magazine had a significant impact on the political process of modern China,but in view of the current weak academic research on this magazine.Therefore,on the premise of describing the general situation of Jiayin magazine,taking the Nationalist movement,the movement of discussing the state system,the Confucian movement,the federalism and the theory of reconciling the founding of the country as examples,this paper focuses on the analysis of Jiayin’s views on the political and ideological construction in the early Republic of China and its influence on the political and cultural trend of thought.First of all,in the case of the overflow of nationalism and the infringement of the individual rights of the people in the early Republic of China,Jiayin held high the banner of individualism,emphasized the priority of protecting individual rights,and could not damage individual rights because of "patriotism",which made Yuan Shikai’s plan that in the name of "patriotism" to go bankrupt;Secondly,when Yuan Shikai instructed Yang Du and others to initiate the national system discussion movement,Jiayin expressed its attitude against changing the national system.In the view of Jiayin colleagues,changing the national system would lead to further loss of national rights and escalation of national civil strife,so the national system should not be changed.Thirdly,when Kang Youwei and others made great efforts to promote Confucianism as the national religion,Jiayin Monthly analyzed the current situation of China and Confucianism rationally,believing that Confucianism should not be established as the national religion in China.Fourthly,when Yuan Shikai constantly strengthened centralization to achieve monopoly of power,Jiayin monthly publicized the federalism vigorously,hoping to use local decentralization to check and balance Yuan Shikai’s power.Finally,facing the complicated political situation in the early Republic of China,Zhang Shizhao put forward the famous "theory of reconciliation and statehood" in the hope that it could be used as a prescription to save Chinese politics.Through vigorous propaganda by colleagues in Jiayin monthly magazine,the ideas of "harmony" and "tolerance" contained in it have exerted a certain influence on the society and have a positive significance for the construction of China’s democratic politics.