The appropriation of cultural capital : China's May Fourth Project / Milena Dolez̆elová-Velingerová and Oldřich Král, editors ; with Graham Sanders, assistant editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Doleželová-Velingerová, Milena, 1932-

Král, Oldřich.

Sanders, Graham Martin.

Series:

Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 207.

Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 207

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Chinese literature.

China--History--May Fourth movement, 1919.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2001.

Other Title:

China's May Fourth Project

Place of Publication:

Boston : Harvard University Asia Center, 2001.

Summary:

"For much of the twentieth century, the May Fourth movement of 1919 was seen as the foundational moment of modernity in China. Recent examinations of literary and cultural modernity in China have, however, led to a questioning of this view. By approaching May Fourth from novel perspectives, the authors of the eight studies in this volume seek to contribute to the ongoing critique of the movement. The essays are centered on the intellectual and cultural/historical motivations and practices behind May Fourth discourse and highlight issues such as strategies of discourse formation, scholarly methodologies, rhetorical dispositions, the manipulation of historical sources, and the construction of modernity by means of the reification of China's literary past.".

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Milena Doleželová-Velingerová

Introduction / Milena Doleželová-Velingerová and David Der-wei Wang

Incomplete Modernity: Rethinking the May Fourth Intellectual Project / Milena Doleželová-Velingerová

The Canonization of May Fourth / Rudolf G. Wagner

Literary Historiography in Early Twentieth, Century China (1904-1928 ): Constructions of Cultural Memory / Milena Doleželová-Velingerová

The End of the Past: Rewriting Chinese Literary History in the Early Republic / Stephen Owen

The Rhetoric of Retrospection: May Fourth Literary History and the Ming-Qing Woman Writer / Ellen Widmer

Root Literature of the 1980s: May Fourth as a Double Burden / Catherine Vance Yeh

Return to Go: Fictional Innovation in the Late Qing and the Late Twentieth Century / David Der-wei Wang

Neither Renaissance nor Enlightenment: A Historian's Reflections on the May Fourth Movement / Ying-shih Yü

Index / Milena Doleželová-Velingerová

Harvard East Asian Monographs / Milena Doleželová-Velingerová.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-68417-364-7

OCLC:

988774477

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781684173648 DOI