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This paper explores the pre-Baodiao publications during the mid and late 1960s and the Baodiao publications in the early 1970s and further reconstruct the formation process of Baodiao Movement Generation based on Karl Mannheim’s generation theory. To reconstruct the process, first, different structures of feeling represented by the intellectuals in the mid-60s that composed the Baodiao Movement Generation in the early 1970s are discussed; second, since the Diaoyu Island Incident is related to the power dynamics within the context of East Asian Cold War, Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony is used to clarify the relation and transformation of the structures of feeling before and after the start of Baodiao Movement; last, by using Pierre Bourdieu's field theory to look into the capital co-opetition among the Baodiao Movement Generation, the difference of political ideologies within the generation is demonstrated. Adopting an issue-based analysis of the Pre-Baodiao and Baodiao publications, the paper aims to characterize the intellectuals or Baodiao Movement Generation behind the publications. In the pre-Baodiao publications, what can be observed is the world picture portrayed by the intellectuals in the mid and late 1960s, whose focus on literary and artistic trends and democratic politics gradually turned into ideological resources. Upon the outbreak of Diaoyu Island Incident, leading to the Baodiao Movement, the intellectuals of that period formed the Baodiao Movement Generation and split into three factions—Defending Taiwan through Reform, the left-wing, and the pro-official right-wing. From the Baodiao publications, the paper discovers that the different political positions of the Baodiao Movement Generation, who expressed divergent opinions on the May Fourth Movement, political reform, and literary and artistic policies. Those opinions are the Generation’s attempt to respond to the domestic affairs of Taiwan and the international situation they were facing. Despite different political views, they all employed ideological resources previously accumulated and created their unique structures of feeling. Whether opposing the Kuomintang, cooperating with the regime, or wandering in the taboo, the Baodiao Movement Generation’s points of view show their reflections on Taiwan after they were connected to the world, and they all laid the groundwork for the reform of Taiwan's political system, liberal democracy, or literary and artistic trends since the 1970s. To sum up, using the publications issued before and after the emergence of the Baodiao Movement, the paper depicts the evolutionary process of the formation of the Baodiao Movement Generation and, based on the discussions of various issues covered in the publications, summarizes the core concerns of the Generation after their ideological separation. What the Baodiao Movement Generation faced was the first major impact of Taiwan's entry into the Axial Period. In response, they, as intellectuals, used their unique structures of feeling to re-present the pioneering nature of the post-war generation and officially became one of the generational units of the Back-to-Reality Generation.
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