1924

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1924

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Xu, Zhimo. Xin yue de tai du. In : Xin yue ; vol. 1, no 1 (1928). [The attitude of the Crescent Moon].
新月的態度
It lamented the anarchic state of thought then obtaining as exhibited in the current crop of 1. Sentimentalists, 2. Decadents, 3. Esthetes, 4. Utilitarians, 5. Didacticists, 6. Polemicists, 7. Radicals, 8. Preciocists, 9. Pornographers, 10. Enthusiasts, 11. Peddlers, 12. Sloganists, 13. Ismists.
Out of the thirteen, at leas more than half could be identified with the leftists. On the otherhand, it espoused the ideals of 'sanity and dignity' as antidotes to those deleterious trends and advised that 'we must view life as a whole'. The ideals conformed to Irving Babbitt's idea of the function of literature as a formative agent, and the advice smacked of Matthew Arnold.

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1973 Hou, Chien. Irving Babbitt and the literary movements in Republican China. In : Tamkang review, vol. 4, no 1 (1973). Publication / Babb27