Beyond the May Fourth paradigm: in search of Chinese modernity

Inhalt: Introduction / Kai-wing Chow, Tze-ki Hon, Hung-yok Ip, and Don C. Price -- Part One : Commercial printing and language reform -- Culture, capital and the temptations of the imagined market : the case of the Commercial Press / Ted Huters -- Canon formation and linguistic turn : literary debates in Republican China, 1919-1949 / Jianhua Chen -- Part Two : Gender and family -- The theory and practice of women's rights in late-Qing Shanghai, 1843-1911 / Xiong Yuezhi -- Exercising women's rights : debates on physical culture since the late nineteenth century / Denise Gimpel -- Generational and cultural fissures in the May Fourth Movement : Wu Yu (1872-1949) and the politics of family reform / Kristin Stapleton -- Part Three : Nation, science, and culture -- The politics of fengjian in late-Qing and Republican China / Viren Murthy -- How did the Chinese become native? : science and the search for national origins in the May Fourth era / Fa-ti Fan -- Nationalizing sound on the verge of Chinese modernity / Frederick Lau -- Part Four : Modernity and its Chinese critics -- Buddhism, literature, and Chinese modernity : Su Manshu's Imaginings of love (1911-1916) / Hung-yok Ip -- From Babbitt to "Bai Bide" : interpretations of new humanism in Xueheng / Tze-ki Hon -- Epilogue -- The other May Fourth : twilight of the old order / Lung-kee Sun.

Inhalt: Introduction / Kai-wing Chow, Tze-ki Hon, Hung-yok Ip, and Don C. Price -- Part One : Commercial printing and language reform -- Culture, capital and the temptations of the imagined market : the case of the Commercial Press / Ted Huters -- Canon formation and linguistic turn : literary debates in Republican China, 1919-1949 / Jianhua Chen -- Part Two : Gender and family -- The theory and practice of women's rights in late-Qing Shanghai, 1843-1911 / Xiong Yuezhi -- Exercising women's rights : debates on physical culture since the late nineteenth century / Denise Gimpel -- Generational and cultural fissures in the May Fourth Movement : Wu Yu (1872-1949) and the politics of family reform / Kristin Stapleton -- Part Three : Nation, science, and culture -- The politics of fengjian in late-Qing and Republican China / Viren Murthy -- How did the Chinese become native? : science and the search for national origins in the May Fourth era / Fa-ti Fan -- Nationalizing sound on the verge of Chinese modernity / Frederick Lau -- Part Four : Modernity and its Chinese critics -- Buddhism, literature, and Chinese modernity : Su Manshu's Imaginings of love (1911-1916) / Hung-yok Ip -- From Babbitt to "Bai Bide" : interpretations of new humanism in Xueheng / Tze-ki Hon -- Epilogue -- The other May Fourth : twilight of the old order / Lung-kee Sun.