从日记的缺失看胡适对“五四”运动的态度

On HU Shi’s Attitude toward the May4th Movement from the Absence of His Diary of This Period

摘要: 胡适既没有参与策划5月 7 日上海国民大会,也没有在会上发表演说,而是当一名冷漠的看客。回北京后对学生罢课提出责难,他起草的《我们对于学生的希望》,只字不提运动的爱国主义性质,反说“这是天下最不经济的事”。但在“五四运动”十六年之后,胡适写了《纪念“五四”》,将自己树为“新文化运动领袖”。发现日记中关于“五四”的记载评论,与自己要扮演的“五四运动的核心人物”绝不相容,只好将1917年7月11日至1919年7月9日两年的日记毁弃。

Abstract: HU Shi neither participated in planning the Shanghai National Conference on May7th, nor made any speech in
the conference. He was only an indifferent onlooker. When he returned to Beijing, he blamed the students’ boycott classes. “Our Hope for Students” drawn up by him did not mention any patriotism of the movement. In contrast, he said“this is the most uneconomical in the world”. However, after16 years of the May4th Movement, HU wrote the article“Memorizing May 4th Movement” and described himself as“a leader of the new cultural movement”. When he found the relevant record and com- ment on“May4th Movement” were completely inconsistent with the described core role of the Movement, he destroyed the part of the diary from July11, 1917 to July9, 1919.