Abstract: After the failure of the Great Revolution, lots of young leftists in Kuomintang were killed by Chiang Kai-shek even though they were not members of the Chinese Communist Party. Those who survived continued to explore possible roads of Chinese revolution. The radical disposition of young people at that time resulted from their own subjective appeals rather than the manipulation of the CCP. Kuomintang's suppression of revolutionary young people further led to the corruption within Kuomintang and the entire society, pushed radical young to approach the CCP and ultimately overturned the regime of Kuomintang. It is conducive to understanding the inevitability and rationality of the Chinese revolution to study the explorations of young leftists in Kuomintang on the future of China and that of themselves by focusing their subjectivity in historical events after the failure of the Great Revolution.

Key words: Kuomintang leftists, revolution, young people, mass movement