Description
Book SynopsisThis book looks at China's May Fourth Movement and how it has been contextualised in modern Chinese history. Tracing the roots of the movement and of modern Chinese literary and intellectual traditions, the book analyses how the movement transformed ideas, culture, and social practices in the country.
The volume presents a critical in-depth study of the May Fourth Movement from interdisciplinary perspectives. With essays written by scholars and experts from India, China, and the West, it discusses concepts and themes such as nationalism; the citizen and revolutionary morality in the late Qing dynasty as well as Lu Xun's struggle with the aporetic temporalities of capitalist modernity; the May Fourth spirit and the Communist Party of China; the birth of the New Woman'; and the literature, cinema, and art produced during the movement. It also examines how the waves created by the movement in Chinese culture and society continue to influence and shape events and thoughts in conte
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
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- Rethinking May Fourth Movement: An Interdisciplinary Approach
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- The May Fourth Movement of 1919: Nationalism and Predicaments of Nation-State in China
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Kamal Sheel
- Modernising the Inner Sage: Citizen and Revolutionary Morality in the Late Qing
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Viren Murthy
- Life after Death in the Chinese Revolution: The Dialogism of Ritual and Political Discourse in the May Fourth Period
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Patricia Uberoi
- Evolution, Eternal Recurrence, and Lu Xun’s Struggle with the Aporetic Temporalities of Capitalist Modernity: Reapproaching Lu Xun’s Yecao (Xu, Guoke, Ying de gaobie)
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Christian Uhl
- Creating New Culture Movement/May Fourth Binaries: Are Contemporary Chinese Interpretations of Wusi (五四) Unhistorical?
Hemant Adlakha
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- Making of May Fourth Spirit
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- The May Fourth Spirit and the Communist Party of China: Evolution and Significance of an Umbilical Relationship
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Prashant Kaushik
- Contribution of Youth Activism in Shaping May Fourth Spirit in China
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Rakesh Kumar
- One Movement Illuminating Another: The Birth of "New Women" from within the ‘May Fourth Movement’
Usha Chandran
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- Legacy of May Fourth Movement: View from India
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- The May Fourth Movement in Indian Newsprint: Glimpses through the Times of India
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Natasha Nongbri
- 1919 in Chinese and Indian History: Analysing the Legacies of the May Fourth Movement and the Jallianwala Bagh incident
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Nirmola Sharma
IV. New Literature and New Cultural Formations
- The Historic Role of Hu Shi in the May Fourth Movement
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Avijit Banerjee
- Female Subjectivity and Consciousness: A ‘New Culture’ in Women’s Literature of Early Twentieth-Century China
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Manju Rani Hara
- The Interaction between Nationalism and the Chinese Film Industry: Multiimensionality of the May Fourth Movement and Nationalism in Modern China
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Wang Chaoguang
- The New Culture Movement and Huaju: From an Art Form to an Agent of Change
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Nishit Kumar
V. Construction of New Culture
- Towards Modernity: New Cultural Constructs and Contestations
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Poonam Surie
- The Making of a ‘New Culture’: Literature and Art since the May Fourth Movement
Sabaree Mitra
Index
