Remembering May Fourth

The Movement and Its Centennial Legacy
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42472-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 23, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 604 g

Reihe: Ideas, History, and Modern China

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lin, Carlos Yu-Kai

H Mair, Victor

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.