Beyond the May Fourth Paradigm

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

The contents of this volume go beyond the usual range of scholarly assessments and reassessments of May Fourth culture and literature. In widening the horizons of the May Fourth movement and its implications to include such diverse topics as language andprinting, gender and family, as well as the larger issues of science, religion, nation, and modernity, this book has made a seminal contribution to scholarship in modern Chinese intellectual and cultural history. Highly recommended for both specialists in the field and interested lay readers...