Beyond the May Fourth Paradigm (eBook)

In Search of Chinese Modernity

Kai-Wing Chow, Tze-Ki Hon, Hung-yok Ip, Don C. Price (Herausgeber)

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2008
352 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4616-3301-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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When did China make the decisive turn from tradition to modernity? For decades, the received wisdom would have pointed to the May Fourth movement, with its titanic battles between the champions of iconoclasm and the traditionalists, and its shift to more populist forms of politics. A growing body of recent research has, however, called into question how decisive the turn was, when it happened, and what relation the resulting modernity bore to the agendas of people who might have considered themselves representatives of such an iconoclastic movement. Having thus explicitly or implicitly 'decentered' the May Fourth, such research (augmented by contributions in the present volume) leaves us with the task of accounting for the shape Chinese modernity took, as the product of dialogues and debates between, and the interplay of, a variety of actors and trends, both within and (certainly no less importantly) without the May Fourth camp.

Autor

Kai-wing Chow is professor of history and East Asian languages and cultures at the University of Illinois. Tze-ki Hon is visiting research fellow at the Modern East Asia Research Centre at Leiden University. Hung-yok Ip is associate professor in the history department at Oregon State University. Don C. Price is professor in the history department at the University of California.

Inhalt

Part 1 IntroductionPart 2 Part One: Commercial Printing and Language ReformChapter 3 1. Culture, Capital and the Temptations of the Imagined Market: The Case of the Commercial PressChapter 4 2. Canon Formation and Linguistic Turn: Literary Debates in Republican China, 1919-1949Part 5 Part Two: Gender and FamilyChapter 6 3. The Theory and Practice of Women's Rights in Late Qing Shanghai, 1843-1911Chapter 7 4. Freeing the Mind through the Body: Women's Thoughts on Physical Education in Late Qing and Early Republican ChinaChapter 8 5. Generational and Cultural Fissures in the May Fourth Movement: Wu Yu (1872-1949) and the Politics of Family ReformPart 9 Part Three: Nation, Science, and CultureChapter 10 6. The Politics of Fengjian in Late Qing and Republican ChinaChapter 11 7. How Did the Chinese Become Native?: Science and the Search for National Origins in the May Fourth EraChapter 12 8. Nationalizing Sound on the Verge of Chinese ModernityPart 13 Part Four: Modernity and Its Chinese CriticsChapter 14 9. Buddhism, Literature, and Chinese Modernity: Su Manshu's Imaginings of Love (1911-1916)Chapter 15 10. From Babbitt to "Bai Bide": Interpretations of New Humanism in XuehengPart 16 EpilogueChapter 17 11. The Other May Fourth: Twilight of the Old Order

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.4.2008
• Co-Autor: Jianhua Chen, Fa-ti Fan, Denise Gimpel, Ted Huters, Frederick Lau, Viren Murthy, Kristin Stapleton, Lung-kee Sun, Xiong Yuezhi
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-4616-3301-X / 146163301X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4616-3301-3 / 9781461633013