Description
Book SynopsisChallenges advanced language learners to elevate their reading ability to the level necessary for handling real primary sources in an unmediated way
Trade Review"Presents a medley of linguistic samples that reflect the development of modern Chinese language from an awkward marriage of the vernacular with literary Chinese in the May Fourth era to the most contemporary features of academic prose and polemics, and addresses an impressive range of social issues, from cultural and literary revolution in the early twentieth century to contemporary politics and policy strategies." Rong Cai, author of The Subject in Crisis in Contemporary Chinese Literature "A very useful textbook for extensive reading in advanced Chinese language courses. The first Chinese textbook designed to help students do research on their own with 'authentic texts' in their own fields." Shuhui Yang, author of Appropriation and Representation: Feng Menglong and the Chinese Vernacular Story
Table of ContentsPreface
1. Cultural Reform
On Constructive Literary Revolution, Hu Shi
2. Social Reform
Excerpts from The Ladies' Journal
3. Reform and Revolution
The Three People's Principles, Sun Yat-sen
4. Rectification
Thoughts on March Eighth, Ding Ling
Wild Lilies, Wang Shiwei
5. Cultural Policy in the People's Republic
Talks at the Yan'an Forum on Art and Literature, Mao Zedong
6. Total Reform
Excerpts from Red Flag
7. The Unreformed
On Family Background, Yu Luoke
8. Tiananmen, 1989
June Fourth - the True Story, Zhang Liang
9. The 1980s Enlightenment
River Elegy, Su Xiaokang et al.
10. Chinese Neo-Nationalism
China Can Say No, Song Qiang et al.
11. The Emergence of Civil Society
Building a Civil Society in China, Deng Zhenglai and Jin Yuejin
12. The New Left and the Critique of Consumerism
The Invisible Politics of Mass Culture, Dai Jinhua
13. Chinese Intellectuals and Christianity
A Sociological Commentary on the Phenomenon of "Cultural" Christians, Liu Xiaofeng
14. Taiwanese Identity
The Rising People, Hsu Hsin-liang
15. Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations
Excerpts from Strategies and Management
16. China's Peaceful Rise
The New Path of China's Peaceful Rise and the Future of Asia
The New Path of China's Peaceful Rise and Sino-US Relations, Zheng Bijian
