Dreaming And Waking Of The National Revolution

The study of Guo Moruo during the Northern Expedition is of great importance not only to the understanding of Guo Moruo’s experience and literary creation at this stage,but also to the understanding of Guo Moruo’s ideological changes before and after the Northern Expedition.However,for a long time,Guo Moruo’s research circles has not paid due attention to Guo Moruo’s research during the Northern Expedition.With the dialogue between literature and history as the basic research method,this paper explores the formation process of "Please see today’s Chiang Kai-shek" and "After leaving Chiang Kai-shek" and the transformation process of Guo Moruo’s attitude to the National Revolution which had changed from enthusiastic fantasy to gradual sobering.A new side could be established in specific historical situations for better understanding Guo Moruo at this stage.The paper chapters are arranged as follows:The first chapter,"Hugging the National Revolution",mainly explores the real motivation of Guo Moruo’s appointment to the Guangdong University’s liberal arts chief was the yearning for the revolutionary source.The teacher selection campaign promoted by Guo Moruo in Guangdong University was originally for the purpose of improving educational administration.However,the liberal arts reform of Guangdong University was an important part of the Kuomintang’s party education.Therefore,the teacher selection campaign promoted by Guo Moruo actually played a drum for the Party-oriented education of the Kuomintang Government in Guangdong.In addition to the educational activities of Guangdong University,Guo Moruo also participated with great enthusiasm in activities and speeches which directly related to the revolution,publicized the revolution and showed his embrace of the national revolution.The second chapter,"Supporting the new capital ’Wuhan" mainly discusses Guo Moruo’s personal experience and the writing of "Please see today’s Chiang Kai-shek" in the historical context of "Restoring the Party Power Movement" : from the end of 1926 to the beginning of1927,the Kuomintang leftists feared that Chiang Kai-shek,the Commander-in-Chiang Kai-shek of the National Revolutionary Army,had too much power,so they launched a powerful "Restoration of Party Power Movement" to suppress his over-expanding autocratic ambition and behavior.In this movement,Guo Moruo was a figure that Chiang Kai-shek tried to attract.Guo Moruo,however,chose to support the leftists and actively lobbied Li Zongren and Zhu Peide,who held military power,to oppose Chiang Kai-shek in support of the Central Committee of Wuhan.He also wrote "Please see today’s Chiang Kai-shek" in Zhu De’s family.Rereading the essays in this context,we can see that under the "recovery of the party’s movement" speech system,"Please see today’s Chiang Kai-shek" is not only Guo Moruo’s anti-Chiang Declaration,but also Guo Moruo’s confession that the national revolution itself contains counter-revolutionary factors.The third chapter,"Formally cooperation and actual confrontation of Anti-Chiang Kai-shek" focuses on Guo Moruo’s motivation and critical strategy in writing "After Leaving Chiang Kai-shek" in the context of Ninghan confrontation and the right-leaning historical context of the Wuhan National Government: Before and after the coup d’etat of April 12,the Wuhan National Government still tried to make Chiang Kai-shek obey by government decrees,Party discipline and propaganda,but hesitated whether to take military action against Chiang Kai-shek.Guo Moruo regarded these actions as a sign of compromise to the counter-revolution and criticized them in "After Leaving Chiang Kai-shek".Therefore,"After Leaving Chiang Kai-shek" has two writing motives: criticizing Chiang Kai-shek and criticizing the compromise behavior of Wuhan National Government.Regarding the criticism of the two,Guo Moruo used two kinds of criticism strategies: direct condemnation and implicit criticism.Because of the different objects of criticism,personal experience,situation and other reasons,the specific ways of expression are different.Guo Moruo’s criticism of Chiang Kai-shek and the Wuhan National Government reflects another sober understanding of the national revolution once again.The fourth chapter,"Reiterating the Revolution for the People" mainly makes discourse analysis of the "people" appearing constantly in two articles,"Please see today’s Chiang Kai-shek" and "After leaving Chiang Kai-shek".From the context in which the word "people" is used,we can see that Guo Moruo holds the revolutionary view of "revolution for the people".This revolutionary concept is not only Guo Moruo’s basic position in a series of political activities during the Northern Expedition,but also the theoretical basis for advocating proletarian revolutionary literature later.The conclusion part pointed out that the study of Guo Moruo and his creations during the Northern Expedition is of great benefit to the understanding of Guo Moruo’s experience,ideological changes,the literature theory of revolutionary and practice during this period.