Remembering May Fourth
The Movement and its Centennial Legacy
Published on 5. March 2020
Book
Hardback
322 pages
978-90-04-42472-2 (ISBN)
Description
Read an interview with Carlos Yu-Kai Lin.
Remembering May Fourth: The Movement and its Centennial Legacy is a collective work of thirteen scholars who reflect on the question of how to remember the May Fourth Movement, one of the most iconic socio-political events in the history of modern China. The book discusses a wide range of issues concerning the relations between politics and memory, between writing and ritualizing, between fiction and reality, and between theory and practice. Remembering May Fourth thus calls into question the ways in which the movement is remembered, while at the same time calling for the need to create new memories of the movement.
Remembering May Fourth: The Movement and its Centennial Legacy is a collective work of thirteen scholars who reflect on the question of how to remember the May Fourth Movement, one of the most iconic socio-political events in the history of modern China. The book discusses a wide range of issues concerning the relations between politics and memory, between writing and ritualizing, between fiction and reality, and between theory and practice. Remembering May Fourth thus calls into question the ways in which the movement is remembered, while at the same time calling for the need to create new memories of the movement.
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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: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
604 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-42472-2 (9789004424722)
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Carlos Yu-Kai Lin, Ph.D. (2015), University of Southern California, is an Assistant Professor of Translation Studies at the City University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on modern Chinese intellectual history, modern Chinese literature, and the history of Chinese fiction.
Victor H. Mair, Ph.D. (1976), Harvard University, is a Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the founder and editor of Sino-Platonic Papers and General Editor of the ABC Chinese Dictionary Series at the University of Hawaii Press.
Victor H. Mair, Ph.D. (1976), Harvard University, is a Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the founder and editor of Sino-Platonic Papers and General Editor of the ABC Chinese Dictionary Series at the University of Hawaii Press.
Content
Contributors
Introduction
?Carlos Yu-Kai Lin
Part 1: Histories and Politics
1 May Fourth as Affect
?Gloria Davies
2 The May Fourth Liberal Legacy in Chan Koonchung's Jianfeng ernian
?Josephine Chiu-Duke
3 Two Versions of Modern Chinese History: a Reassessment of Hu Shi and Lu Xun
?Chih-ping Chou
4 Chinese Renaissance, Other Renaissances
?Gang Zhou
5 Hu Shi and the May Fourth Legacy
?Yung-chen Chiang
6 Theory and Practice in the May Fourth Period
?Shakhar Rahav
Part 2: Literature and Languages
7 Nature and Critique of Modernity in Shen Congwen: an Eco-Critical Reading
?Ban Wang
8 A New Vision of Life in Xiao Hong's The Field of Life and Death
?Todd Foley
9 Aesthetic Cognition and the Subject of Discourse in Lu Xun's Modern-Style Fiction
?Nicholas Kaldis
10 Literary Bombs: a Sketch of the May Fourth Generation and Bomb as Metaphor
?Chien-hsin Tsai
11 Utopian Language: from Esperanto to the Abolishment of Chinese Characters
?Chih-ping Chou
12 The Immortality of Words: Hu Shi's Language Reform and His Reflection on Religion
?Gina Elia & Victor H. Mair
13 A Historical and Bilingual Perspective on the Concept of Vernacular
?Carlos Yu-Kai Lin
Introduction
?Carlos Yu-Kai Lin
Part 1: Histories and Politics
1 May Fourth as Affect
?Gloria Davies
2 The May Fourth Liberal Legacy in Chan Koonchung's Jianfeng ernian
?Josephine Chiu-Duke
3 Two Versions of Modern Chinese History: a Reassessment of Hu Shi and Lu Xun
?Chih-ping Chou
4 Chinese Renaissance, Other Renaissances
?Gang Zhou
5 Hu Shi and the May Fourth Legacy
?Yung-chen Chiang
6 Theory and Practice in the May Fourth Period
?Shakhar Rahav
Part 2: Literature and Languages
7 Nature and Critique of Modernity in Shen Congwen: an Eco-Critical Reading
?Ban Wang
8 A New Vision of Life in Xiao Hong's The Field of Life and Death
?Todd Foley
9 Aesthetic Cognition and the Subject of Discourse in Lu Xun's Modern-Style Fiction
?Nicholas Kaldis
10 Literary Bombs: a Sketch of the May Fourth Generation and Bomb as Metaphor
?Chien-hsin Tsai
11 Utopian Language: from Esperanto to the Abolishment of Chinese Characters
?Chih-ping Chou
12 The Immortality of Words: Hu Shi's Language Reform and His Reflection on Religion
?Gina Elia & Victor H. Mair
13 A Historical and Bilingual Perspective on the Concept of Vernacular
?Carlos Yu-Kai Lin