Abstract:

The youth culture, represented by the May 4th youth, is produced on the basis of the naissance of the youth stratum in modern China. From the view of the content, the New Youth has a "youthful" or "vigorous" soul. During the time of the May 4th Movement, a large number of the critical essays, taking the "youth" as the theme, makes up of the unique "youthful discussion". There are mainly two reasons for Chen Duxiu' s naming his magazine the New Youth: firstly, youth as a social role possesses a powerful social function, being easy to become the strength of social innovation; secondly, youth in itself compromises a likelihood of value judgment that takes time as measure. Therefore, on the one hand, youth as the object being enlightened has a great possibility of innovation, and, on the other hand, since its moral advantage, in a struggle against the old age, old empire, old system, old culture and old moral, it is easy to obtain acceptance. The modern youth' s birth of this social role is the outcome of such bilateral development. While social role expectation or social norm strength is produced, there exists youth' s independent consciousness or role selfdesigning. That is to say, youth is determined not only by social role expectation but also by the subject behavior of the student as the role actor and its interaction with social role expectation. As far as modern China is concerned, the production of youth as a social role is closely related to the New Youth. And the May 4th youth, by virtue of reading the New Youth, produces selfconsciousness. The development of this selfconsciousness results in youth worship.

Key words: The Naissance of the Youth Culture , Modern China, Taking the New Youth , the Main Study Case