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From Empire to People’s Republic
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R. Keith Schoppa
Published: 18 July 2024
... Army imperial China Revolutionary Alliance Sun Yat sen Sun Yat sen Yuan Shikai Tang dynasty Nationalist Party KMT Republic of China 1912 1949 Song Jiaoren Cao Kun Feng Yuxiang Warlord Era 1916 26 Wu Peifu Yan Xishan Zhang Zongchang Cai Yuanpei Chinese language Lu Xun May Fourth...
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Revolutionary Afterlives
Johannes Kaminski
Published: 21 December 2023
...) further advance the motifs of Wertherian prose. Risorgimento May-Fourth-Movement Patriotism Revolution CCP Is Werther a political text? For some readers, the answer is obvious. After all, Werther’s snub at the aristocratic assembly indicates that he suffers not only from unrequited...
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The Cultural Politics of Theater Reform
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Wing Chung Ng
Published: 01 May 2015
...This chapter seeks to place the cultural debates surrounding Cantonese opera in a broader context by examining the various impulses for reform and delineating their outcomes. Against the backdrop of the May Fourth Movement, as political leaders adopted modernist projects to remake the country...
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The Insistent Pull of Politics
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Timothy B. Weston
Published: 27 February 2004
... Movement witnessed a notable acceleration and expansion of the New Culture group's campaign to shape public opinion. Cai refuted Lin Shu's attacks one by one, pointing out that Beida still taught classical Chinese and that many professors were admirers of Confucianism. The May Fourth Movement was both...
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The Power of Position: Beijing University, Intellectuals, and Chinese Political Culture, 1898-1929
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Timothy Weston
Published online: 22 March 2012
Published in print: 27 February 2004
...Throughout the twentieth century, Beijing University (or Beida) has been at the center of China's greatest political and cultural upheavals—from the May Fourth Movement of 1919 to the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s to the tragic events in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Why this should be—how Beida's...
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Published: 27 September 2016
... A Tan Sitong Renxue Zhang Binglin Zhang Hao Hao Chang Chinese Enlightenment May Fourth Movement analogy in historiography Chen Duxiu Chinese Renaissance Hu Shi Hu Shih Johnston R F Xin Qingnian New Youth Conservative Mind from Burke to Eliot The Russell Kirk Mao Zedong modernization...
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Intellectual Ferment in the Nationalist Era
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Christopher A. Ford
Published: 23 April 2010
... emerged in the early twentieth century, proposing the outright rejection of Confucianism. This movement coalesced into what became known as the May Fourth Movement, which viewed much of China's cultural tradition as an obstacle to modernization. The movement marked a watershed for Chinese nationalist...
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Published: 25 February 2016
... Chinese bureaucracy May Fourth Movement censorship Chinese Communist Party Deng Xiaoping Mao Zedong May Fourth Movement Olympic Games It is impossible to do other than assent to the unanimous verdict that China has at length come to the hour of her destiny … The contempt for foreigners is a thing...
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Published: 28 February 2008
... hierarchy progress idea of elites enlightenment examinations to enter Chinese bureaucracy feudalism Chinese Communist Party CCP May Fourth Movement Nationalist Guomindang or Kuomintang Party science and technology Communist Party Deng Xiaoping economy Mao Zedong May Fourth Movement...
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Culture: “destroy the old, establish the new”
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Richard Curt Kraus
Published: 26 January 2012
... Revolution aesthetics the West The Rent Collection Courtyard sculpture Zhu De arts Hao Ran May Fourth movement New Life movement sexism army Deng Xiaoping Gang of Four Zhang Chunqiao peasants Chen Minyuan poetry Unpublished Poems of Chairman Mao Cultural Revolution intellectuals...
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Becoming Wang Jingxuan
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Michael Gibbs Hill
Published: 05 November 2012
... Zhang Yuanji 1867–1959 Wenming Books Wenming shuju New Youth Xin Qingnian Qian Xuantong Toury Gideon translational norms Liu Bannong May Fourth movement writers Legge James and commercialism Yan Fu 1853–1921 Fujian scholar Zhang Zhidong 1837–1909 modernity New Culture movement writers...
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Conclusion: Pure and Chaste Writing
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Michael Gibbs Hill
Published: 05 November 2012
... translation translational norms Fenollosa Ernest Hayot Eric Kenner Hugh study of Ezra Pound modernity translation as mental labor sixiang thought and the favoring of original utterances translation May Fourth Movement Chinese intellectuals 古文萬無滅亡之理,其勿怠爾修! The eternal principle of guwen ...
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The Yijing as China Enters the Modern Age
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Geoffrey Redmond and Tze-ki Hon
Published: 01 October 2014
... has once again become a vital part of contemporary Chinese cultural life. This chapter provides a succinct summary of how the Yijing has been a vital part of the Chinese quest for modernity. Confucianism context criticism I Ching May Fourth Movement Yijing Zhouyi Changes...
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Published: 23 June 2010
... Plato Socrates Wu Fangji China classontesicism May Fourth Movement Hu Shi Babbitt critique of modernity Le style éternel et cosmopolite. Chateaubriand, Rancé. Baudelaire, ‘Mon coeur mis à nu’ (1863) Ever since 1917, the people of our country have thought of everything in terms of ‘old...
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Published: 25 February 2016
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The Cultural Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
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Richard Curt Kraus
Published online: 24 September 2013
Published in print: 26 January 2012
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Published online: 24 September 2013
Published in print: 28 February 2008
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Tensions within the May Fourth Movement
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Timothy B. Weston
Published: 27 February 2004
... the extent to which the May Fourth Movement did in fact forever change the institution. It then addresses the dialectical relationship between the old culture and the new. The New Culture commitment to sexual equality had not significantly loosened the tenacious hold of traditional mores pertaining...
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The Forbidden City (1919–1920)
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Shiona Airlie
Published: 01 December 2012
... was impressed by the grandeur of the decoration of the palaces but he was even more surprised by the evil deeds of the palace's old customs or stultifying ceremonials. Johnston made plans for a foreign tour for Puyi, but due to the chaotic political situation of China brought by the May Fourth Movement, his...
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Published: 25 May 2019
...Chapter 3 examines the legacy of the May Fourth Movement in the context of postwar Hong Kong’s golden age of cinema. It argues that the May Fourth project was an unfinished one and was carried forward by progressive Cantonese filmmakers who were the torchbearers of its ideology. This chapter...
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