Hunan Communist Youth League Study (1920-1927)

So far, in the academic, the researches on problem of the Chinese CYL not only have a small number, but also most are researching paradigm for general historic grand events. This paper discusses the image of the Hunan CYL from 1920 to 1927 systematically with the perspective which associates the background,structure and organization of groups and image intrinsically. In order to make a new explanation of the image of the organization of the early CYL and the process of the CYL's growth, and provide new ideas for the construction of the CPC and CYL in the real world.The diversity of natural ecological environment and the coexistence of many factors of socio-ecological environment in modern Hunan gave birth to the unique Huxiang culture: Restoration to the Reform Movement is the critical point, and before this, the traditional conservative forces had taken an overwhelming advantage, and then the new power which is on behalf of the modern direction of history emerged, but the latter showed its strong vitality as soon as it appeared. Since then, the old and the new cultural factors began a life-and-death struggle, the acuity and the long duration of the struggle has not been seen in other province. In the infiltration of the unique modern Hunan culture, and under Youth Day, the mind is unprecedented active and colorful, various social organizations have also mushroomed like a staged, some of them tried to separate from the traditional social organizations, and the most special is the Xin Min institute and the xin Association. Because of just entering the "crossroads" from the traditional societies to the modern societies, the construction of organization for Xin Min institute and the xin Association are inevitably of naivety.Hunan CYL was born at the background mentioned above and it indicated the construction of the latter organization could not be an accessible way. In order to discard the malpractices of traditional society's ,such as "loose organization", "lack of belief" , "establish and dissolution all in a short period", the Committee of early Hunan CYL took the Construction Strategy of "Attending Communist Youth strictly" and "practical training strictly". So, Hunan CYL gathered a large number of the young with initial communist ideals, it ensured the purity and revolutionary character of the CYL in a certain extent, and it made an indelible historical contribution to promote the cooperation between KMT and CCP and to rise the wave of anti-imperialism quickly. On the other hand, the organization of Hunan CYL in this time was not only effected deeply by the background of Hunan , but also was restricted by the factors of the turbulent political situation at that time, funding difficulties, limited transmission of information, complex tasks and the physical and mental characteristics of its own, therefore, some naive characters which were similar to the Xin Min institute and the Xin Association could still be found in itself. This is embodied in the grass-roots organizations and laxation of the CYL, formality of the branches' Living, shaking of members' faith, the power to control the students movement and other events was not strong as well as the case with base of the relationship between the KMT and the CPC is not solid and so on.This paper shows there is an internal logic of association among the overall background of regional society, the group structure of social organization breed in it and the image of the organization of the group. For the modern Hunan, the different background from other provinces made the structure of group of The CYL from 1920-1927 with obvious character of "radical students", this character together with other restrictions mentioned above finally made the infant image of the CYL has become a historical necessity. On the one hand, there is restricted relations among the three. On the other hand, the image of the organization affected the other two deeply. In a word , there is not only a restricted relations among the three, but also exists a counteractions in them, they are the two sides of one problem. The three are Contradictory unity which affects and transform mutually.