New Vocabularies of May Fourth Studies
Published on 14. November 2024
Book
Hardback
270 pages
978-90-04-69332-6 (ISBN)
Description
Why did the "Shandong Question" vanish in the May Fourth narrative? How did conservatives and traditionalists endure admist the progressive wave of the new culture movement? What role did Confucian ritualism and religion play in shaping May Fourth literature? Is an uncanny connection hidden between "Return Qingdao" and "Liberate Hong Kong"?
This volume, edited by Carlos Yu-Kai Lin and Victor H. Mair, and with contributors from across the fields of intellectual history, literature and languages, philosophy, and Asian studies, answers these questions and offers new insights into the May Fourth movement. It explores this pivotal historical event both as a singular occurrence and as a sustaining cultural-intellectual campaign. The new volume is brimming with fresh perspectives, uncovering these enigmas, and unveiling the nuanced and intricate world of the May Fourth to its discening readers.
This volume, edited by Carlos Yu-Kai Lin and Victor H. Mair, and with contributors from across the fields of intellectual history, literature and languages, philosophy, and Asian studies, answers these questions and offers new insights into the May Fourth movement. It explores this pivotal historical event both as a singular occurrence and as a sustaining cultural-intellectual campaign. The new volume is brimming with fresh perspectives, uncovering these enigmas, and unveiling the nuanced and intricate world of the May Fourth to its discening readers.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-69332-6 (9789004693326)
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Carlos Yu-Kai Lin is Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages and Literature at National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan. He is an editor of Power of Freedom: Hu Shih's Political Writings (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press) and Remembering May Fourth: The Movement and Its Centennial Legacy (Leiden and Boston: Brill).
Victor H. Mair is Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He edited The Columbia
History of Chinese Literature (New York: Columbia University Press), The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature
(New York: Columbia University Press), and serves as series editor of the Cambria Sinophone World Series for Cambria Press.
Victor H. Mair is Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He edited The Columbia
History of Chinese Literature (New York: Columbia University Press), The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature
(New York: Columbia University Press), and serves as series editor of the Cambria Sinophone World Series for Cambria Press.