The May Fourth Movement
The May Fourth Movement

Author: Cezong Zhou

Publisher:

Published: 1960

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13:

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There are few major events in modern Chinese history so controversial, so much discussed, yet so inadequately treated as the May Fourth Movement. For some Chinese it marks a national renaissance or liberation, for others a national catastrophe. Among those who discuss or celebrate it most, views vary greatly. Every May for the last forty years, numerous articles have analyzed and commented on the movement. Several books devoted entirely to the subject and hundreds touching on it have been published in Chinese. The literature on the subject is massive, yet most of it offers more polemic than factual accounts. Most Westerners possess but fragmentary and inaccurate information on the subject. For these reasons, preparation of this volume recounting the events of the movement and examining in detail its currents and effects has seemed to me worthwhile.

The Chinese Enlightenment
The Chinese Enlightenment

Author: Vera Schwarcz

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 9780520050273

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It is widely accepted, both inside China and in the West, that contemporary Chinese history begins with the May Fourth Movement. Vera Schwarcz's imaginative new study provides China scholars and historians with an analysis of what makes that event a turning point in the intellectual, spiritual, cultural and political life of twentieth-century China.

From May Fourth to June Fourth
From May Fourth to June Fourth

Author: Ellen Widmer

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 9780674325029

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What do Chinese literature and film inspired by the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) have in common with media of the May Fourth movement (1918–1930)? This book demonstrates several shared aims: to liberate narrative arts from aesthetic orthodoxies, to draw on foreign sources for inspiration, and to free individuals from social conformity.

Reflections on the May Fourth Movement
Reflections on the May Fourth Movement

Author: Benjamin I. Schwartz

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-08-25

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 168417175X

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This symposium commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the May Fourth Movement of 1919 in China. This volume contains six essays on various aspects of the movement.

New Culture in a New World
New Culture in a New World

Author: David Kenley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-06

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1135945659

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During the 1920s, China's intellectuals called for a new literature, system of thought and orientation towards modern life: the May Fourth Movement or the New Culture Movement spilled beyond China to the overseas Chinese communities. This work analyzes the New Culture Movement from a diaspora perspective of the overseas Chinese in Singapore.

The Appropriation of Cultural Capital
The Appropriation of Cultural Capital

Author: Milena Doleželová-Velingerová

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-03-23

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 1684173647

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"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."

Modern Chinese Literature in the May Fourth Era
Modern Chinese Literature in the May Fourth Era

Author: Merle Goldman

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780674579118

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One of the most creative and brilliant episodes in modern Chinese history, the cultural and literary flowering that takes the name of the May Fourth Movement, is the subject of this comprehensive and insightful book. This is the first study of modern Chinese literature that shows how China's Confucian traditions were combined with Western influences to create a literature of new values and consciousness for the Chinese people.

Beyond the May Fourth Paradigm
Beyond the May Fourth Paradigm

Author: Kai-wing Chow

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2008-04-18

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 146163301X

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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.