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Beyond the May Fourth paradigm : in search of Chinese modernity / edited by Kai-wing Chow, Tze-ki Hon, Hung-yok Ip, and Don C. Price.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- China--Civilization--20th century.
- China.
- China--History--May Fourth movement, 1919.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefied, [2008]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Beyond the May Fourth Paradigm explores various dimensions of modern Chinese culture, ranging from literature, thought, and music to scientific research, business, and everyday life. By heeding how the May Fourth and non-May Fourth groups depended on each other and joined forces in creating Chinese modernity, this anthology points to the significant directions that Chinese historical actors chose as they competed but also collaborated in modernizing themselves, their culture, and the nation.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Kai-wing Chow, Tze-ki Hon, Hung-yok Ip, and Don C. Price
- Part One : Commercial printing and language reform
- Culture, capital and the temptations of the imagined market : the case of the Commercial Press / Ted Huters
- Canon formation and linguistic turn : literary debates in Republican China, 1919-1949 / Jianhua Chen
- Part Two : Gender and family
- The theory and practice of women's rights in late-Qing Shanghai, 1843-1911 / Xiong Yuezhi
- Exercising women's rights : debates on physical culture since the late nineteenth century / Denise Gimpel
- Generational and cultural fissures in the May Fourth Movement : Wu Yu (1872-1949) and the politics of family reform / Kristin Stapleton
- Part Three : Nation, science, and culture
- The politics of fengjian in late-Qing and Republican China / Viren Murthy
- How did the Chinese become native? : science and the search for national origins in the May Fourth era / Fa-ti Fan
- Nationalizing sound on the verge of Chinese modernity / Frederick Lau
- Part Four : Modernity and its Chinese critics
- Buddhism, literature, and Chinese modernity : Su Manshu's Imaginings of love (1911-1916) / Hung-yok Ip
- From Babbitt to "Bai Bide" : interpretations of new humanism in Xueheng / Tze-ki Hon
- Epilogue
- The other May Fourth : twilight of the old order / Lung-kee Sun.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-318) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-9787-8263-2
- 1-4616-3301-X
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