:Beyond the May Fourth Paradigm: In Search of Chinese Modernity.

Abstract

Part 1 Introduction Part 2 Part One: Commercial Printing and Language Reform Chapter 3 1. Culture, Capital and the Temptations of the Imagined Market: The Case of the Commercial Press Chapter 4 2. Canon Formation and Linguistic Turn: Literary Debates in Republican China, 1919-1949 Part 5 Part Two: Gender and Family Chapter 6 3. The Theory and Practice of Women's Rights in Late Qing Shanghai, 1843-1911 Chapter 7 4. Freeing the Mind through the Body: Women's Thoughts on Physical Education in Late Qing and Early Republican China Chapter 8 5. Generational and Cultural Fissures in the May Fourth Movement: Wu Yu (1872-1949) and the Politics of Family Reform Part 9 Part Three: Nation, Science, and Culture Chapter 10 6. The Politics of Fengjian in Late Qing and Republican China Chapter 11 7. How Did the Chinese Become Native?: Science and the Search for National Origins in the May Fourth Era Chapter 12 8. Nationalizing Sound on the Verge of Chinese Modernity Part 13 Part Four: Modernity and Its Chinese Critics Chapter 14 9. Buddhism, Literature, and Chinese Modernity: Su Manshu's Imaginings of Love (1911-1916) Chapter 15 10. From Babbitt to Bai Bide: Interpretations of New Humanism in Xueheng Part 16 Epilogue Chapter 17 11. The Other May Fourth: Twilight of the Old Order