The Appropriation of Cultural Capital: China's May Fourth Project

by Milena Dolezelová-Velingerová (Editor), Oldrich Král (Editor), Leo Ou-fan Lee (Contribution by), Stephen Owen (Contribution by), Rudolph Wagner (Contribution by)

Overview

For much of the twentieth century, the May Fourth movement of 1919 was seen as the foundational moment of modernity in China. Recent examinations of literary and cultural modernity in China have, however, led to a questioning of this view. By approaching May Fourth from novel perspectives, the authors of the eight studies in this volume seek to contribute to the ongoing critique of the movement.

The essays are centered on the intellectual and cultural/historical motivations and practices behind May Fourth discourse and highlight issues such as strategies of discourse formation, scholarly methodologies, rhetorical dispositions, the manipulation of historical sources, and the construction of modernity by means of the reification of China’s literary past.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674007864
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	03/30/2002
Series:	Harvard East Asian Monographs , #207
Pages:	350
Product dimensions:	(w) x (h) x 1.25(d)

About the Author

Milena Doleželová-Velingerová is Professor of Chinese Literature, Emerita, at the University of Toronto.

Oldřich Král is Professor of Sinology and Comparative Literature at Charles University, Prague.

Graham Sanders is Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto.

Leo Ou-fan Lee is Professor Emeritus of Chinese Literature at Harvard University and Professor of Humanities at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Stephen Owen is James Bryant Conant University Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard University.

Rudolph Wagner is Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Heidelberg.

David Der-wei Wang is Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature and Comparative Literature, Harvard University, and Director of the CCK Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinological Studies.

Ellen Widmer is Mayling Soong Professor of Chinese Studies and Professor of East Asian Studies at Wellesley College.

Catherine Vance Yeh is Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature at Boston University.

Yiing-shih Yu is Professor of Chinese History at Princeton University.