Touches of history : an entry into 'May Fourth' China / / by Chen Pingyuan ; translated by Michel Hockx ; with Maria af Sandeberg, Uganda Sze Pui Kwan, Christopher Neil Payne, and Christopher Rosenmeier.

The “May Fourth Movement” of 1919 is generally seen as the central event in China’s transformation from the traditional to the modern. It signalled the arrival of effective student activism on the political scene; it heralded the success of outspoken anti-imperialist ideologies; its slogans and pamp...

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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Brill's humanities in China library, v. 2
Brill's Humanities in China Library 2.
Physical Description:1 online resource (447 p.)
Notes:Translation of: Chu mo li shi yu jin ru wu silent.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Chen Pingyuan
  • Introduction / Chen Pingyuan
  • CHAPTER ONE On the Day of May the Fourth: An Alternative Narrative of the ‘May Fourth’ Movement / Chen Pingyuan
  • CHAPTER TWO Literature from the Perspective of Intellectual History: Studies of New Youth / Chen Pingyuan
  • CHAPTER THREE Enquiring into the Meaning of the University: Cai Yuanpei as an Educationist / Chen Pingyuan
  • CHAPTER FOUR How to Formulate Knowledge: The Vernacular Writing of Zhang Taiyan / Chen Pingyuan
  • CHAPTER FIVE The Shaping of the Canon: How the Zhou Brothers and Others Edited Hu Shi’s Poems / Chen Pingyuan
  • CHAPTER SIX Writings in the Margins of ‘New Culture’: New Discoveries from among Heaps of Old Papers / Chen Pingyuan
  • Bibliography / Chen Pingyuan
  • Index / Chen Pingyuan.