Abstract:
As editor-in-general of New Youth, Chen Duxiu had intended to revolutionize the literary world in China in his day but he failed to find a proper path for literary revolution until he got to know Hu Shi. Chen made himself especially individualistic among his comrades in the common cause of opposing the old literature and advocating a new one by utterly breaking away from the traditional view of “literature carrying the Tao”. Later, Chen changed his attitude to literature after he became leader of the Communist Party of China, but resumed his view of literature in time of New Youth in his late days.
