New Youth

1915–26 Chinese counter-cultural literary magazine New YouthTraditional Chinese新靑年Simplified Chinese新青年TranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu PinyinXīn QīngniánWade–GilesHsin1 Chʻing1-nien2 New Youth, also known as La Jeunesse, was a Chinese literary magazine founded by Chen Duxiu and published between 1915 and 1926. It strongly influenced both the New Culture Movement and the later May Fourth Movement. Publishing history Chen Duxiu founded Youth Magazine (Chinese:《青年杂志》, later renamed New Youth) in 1915 in Shanghai, with the initial aim of spreading new thoughts and cultures—especially Western ideals of democracy and science—in order to promote the modernization of Chinese society. He created the magazine with the hope that young people would express their opinions and thoughts to help save China, and that authors could offer new thoughts for young people at that time. He also sought to advocate for a literary revolution by promoting the use of vernacular Chinese instead of classical Chinese, making literature more accessible to the general public. Another factor in his founding of the magazine was his desire to enlighten the youth; he considered