Beyond the May Fourth Paradigm
Subtitle: In Search of Chinese Modernity
By: edited by Kai-wing Chow ... [et al.].
Contributors: Chow, Kai-wing, 1951-
Publisher: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefied; Lexington Books; Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780739111222
Subjects: China -- Civilization -- 20th century; China -- History -- May Fourth movement, 1919
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-318) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Kai-wing Chow, Tze-ki Hon, Hung-yok Ip, and Don C. Price; title: Part One : Commercial printing and language reform; title: Culture, capital and the temptations of the imagined market : the case of the Commercial Press / Ted Huters; title: Canon formation and linguistic turn : literary debates in Republican China, 1919-1949 / Jianhua Chen; title: Part Two : Gender and family; title: The theory and practice of women's rights in late-Qing Shanghai, 1843-1911 / Xiong Yuezhi; title: Exercising women's rights : debates on physical culture since the late nineteenth century / Denise Gimpel; title: Generational and cultural fissures in the May Fourth Movement : Wu Yu (1872-1949) and the politics of family reform / Kristin Stapleton; title: Part Three : Nation, science, and culture; title: The politics of fengjian in late-Qing and Republican China / Viren Murthy; title: How did the Chinese become native? : science and the search for national origins in the May Fourth era / Fa-ti Fan; title: Nationalizing sound on the verge of Chinese modernity / Frederick Lau; title: Part Four : Modernity and its Chinese critics; title: Buddhism, literature, and Chinese modernity : Su Manshu's Imaginings of love (1911-1916) / Hung-yok Ip; title: From Babbitt to "Bai Bide" : interpretations of new humanism in Xueheng / Tze-ki Hon; title: Epilogue; title: The other May Fourth : twilight of the old order / Lung-kee Sun.