1919 – The Year That Changed China: A New History of the New Culture Movement

Elisabeth Forster

book: 1919 – The Year That Changed China

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2018

1919 – The Year That Changed China

A New History of the New Culture Movement

Elisabeth Forster
Funded by: Knowledge Unlatched

Volume 2 in the series Transformations of Modern China

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110560718

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The year 1919 changed Chinese culture radically, but in a way that completely took contemporaries by surprise. At the beginning of the year, even well-informed intellectuals did not anticipate that, for instance, baihua (aprecursor of the modern Chinese language), communism, Hu Shi and Chen Duxiu would become important and famous – all of which was very obvious to them at the end of the year.

Elisabeth Forster traces the precise mechanisms behind this transformation on the basis of a rich variety of sources, including newspapers, personal letters, student essays, advertisements, textbooks and diaries. She proposes a new model for cultural change, which puts intellectual marketing at its core. This book retells the story of the New Culture Movement in light of the diversifi ed and decentered picture of Republican China developed in recent scholarship. It is a lively and ironic narrative about cultural change through academic infi ghting, rumors and conspiracy theories, newspaper stories and intellectuals (hell-)bent on selling agendas through powerful buzzwords.

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Elisabeth Forster, Universität Freiburg.

Reviews

"Just in the past year, for instance, protesters at National Taiwan University invoked the “New Culture Movement” and the legacies of Hu Shi and Fu Sinian. Forster’s excellent book helps the reader to understand why these figures and slogans continue to mobilize political and intellectual support. It will be of interest to historians and literary critics of modern Chinese history, and it deserves to be widely read and discussed."
Albert Wu, Rezension in: H-Soz-Kult, 04.10.2018, www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-29124

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	VIII
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	1
1. Early 1919 – Reforms to save the nation Open Access Download PDF	27
2. May 4, 1919 – Rumors and conspiracy theories Open Access Download PDF	59
3. Late 1919 – Marketing with the “New Culture Movement” Open Access Download PDF	91
4. The 1920s and 1930s – The limits of the New Culture Movement Open Access Download PDF	130
5. 1919 to 2016 – Canonizing a buzzword Open Access Download PDF	156
Conclusion Open Access Download PDF	195
Glossary of Terms Open Access Download PDF	203
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	205
Index Open Access Download PDF	248

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 250

eBook

Published: March 5, 2018
ISBN: 9783110560718

Hardcover

Published: March 5, 2018
ISBN: 9783110558135

Paperback

Published: December 2, 2019
ISBN: 9783110682731