Beyond the May Fourth Paradigm (eBook)

Kai-wing Chow is professor of history and East Asian languages and cultures at the University of Illinois. Tze-ki Hon is visiting research fellow at the Modern East Asia Research Centre at Leiden University. Hung-yok Ip is associate professor in the history department at Oregon State University. Don C. Price is professor in the history department at the University of California.

Part 1 IntroductionPart 2 Part One: Commercial Printing and Language ReformChapter 3 1. Culture, Capital and the Temptations of the Imagined Market: The Case of the Commercial PressChapter 4 2. Canon Formation and Linguistic Turn: Literary Debates in Republican China, 1919-1949Part 5 Part Two: Gender and FamilyChapter 6 3. The Theory and Practice of Women's Rights in Late Qing Shanghai, 1843-1911Chapter 7 4. Freeing the Mind through the Body: Women's Thoughts on Physical Education in Late Qing and Early Republican ChinaChapter 8 5. Generational and Cultural Fissures in the May Fourth Movement: Wu Yu (1872-1949) and the Politics of Family ReformPart 9 Part Three: Nation, Science, and CultureChapter 10 6. The Politics of Fengjian in Late Qing and Republican ChinaChapter 11 7. How Did the Chinese Become Native?: Science and the Search for National Origins in the May Fourth EraChapter 12 8. Nationalizing Sound on the Verge of Chinese ModernityPart 13 Part Four: Modernity and Its Chinese CriticsChapter 14 9. Buddhism, Literature, and Chinese Modernity: Su Manshu's Imaginings of Love (1911-1916)Chapter 15 10. From Babbitt to "Bai Bide": Interpretations of New Humanism in XuehengPart 16 EpilogueChapter 17 11. The Other May Fourth: Twilight of the Old Order