Lin Shu, Inc.
Title | Lin Shu, Inc. PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Gibbs Hill |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199892881 |
Broken tools -- The name is changed, but the tale is told of you -- Double exposure -- Looking backward? -- The national classicist -- Becoming Wang Jingxuan -- Conclusion : pure and chaste writing
Lin Shu, Inc
Title | Lin Shu, Inc PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Gibbs Hill |
Publisher | |
Pages | 518 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | China |
ISBN |
Modern Chinese Literature, Lin Shu and the Reformist Movement
Title | Modern Chinese Literature, Lin Shu and the Reformist Movement PDF eBook |
Author | César Guarde-Paz |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2017-06-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9811043167 |
This Pivot reconsiders the controversial literary figure of Lin Shu and the debate surrounding his place in the history of Modern Chinese Literature. Although recent Chinese mainland research has recognized some of the innovations introduced by Lin Shu, he has often been labeled a 'rightist reformer' in contrast to 'leftist reformers' such as Chen Duxiu and the new wave scholars of the May Fourth Movement. This book provides a well-documented account of his place in the different polemics between these two circles ('conservatives' and 'reformers') and provides a more nuanced account of the different literary movements of the time. Notably, it argues that these differences were neither in content nor in politics, but in the methodological approach of both parties. Examining Lin Shu and the 'conservatives' advocated coexistence of both traditional and modern thought, the book provides background to the major changes occurring in the intellectual landscape of Modern China.
1919 – The Year That Changed China
Title | 1919 – The Year That Changed China PDF eBook |
Author | Elisabeth Forster |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 211 |
Release | 2018-03-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3110558297 |
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.
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures PDF eBook |
Author | Carlos Rojas |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 1063 |
Release | 2016-07-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0190628146 |
With over forty original essays, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures offers an in-depth engagement with the current analytical methodologies and critical practices that are shaping the field in the twenty-first century. Divided into three sections--Structure, Taxonomy, and Methodology--the volume carefully moves across approaches, genres, and forms to address a rich range topics that include popular culture in Late Qing China, Zhang Guangyu's Journey to the West in Cartoons, writings of Southeast Asian migrants in Taiwan, the Chinese Anglophone Novel, and depictions of HIV/AIDS in Chu T'ien-wen's Notes of a Desolate Man.
Translation and Modernization in East Asia in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Title | Translation and Modernization in East Asia in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries PDF eBook |
Author | Wong Lawrence Wangchi |
Publisher | The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2018-03-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9882370519 |
This book discusses how Western ideas, knowledge, concepts and practices were imported, adapted and even transformed into varied contexts in East Asia. In particular, authors in this rich volume focus on the role translation played in the processes of modernization in China, Japan, and Korea in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Business of Culture
Title | The Business of Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Rea |
Publisher | UBC Press |
Pages | 349 |
Release | 2014-12-15 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0774827831 |
From the late nineteenth- to the mid-twentieth century, changing technologies and growing transregional ties provided unprecedented opportunities for the entrepreneurially minded in China and Southeast Asia. The Business of Culture examines the rise of Chinese “cultural entrepreneurs,” businesspeople who risked financial well-being and reputation by investing in multiple cultural enterprises in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rich in biographical detail, the interlinked case studies featured in this volume introduce three distinct archetypes: the cultural personality, the tycoon, and the collective enterprise. These portraits reveal how changes in social and economic conditions created the fertile soil for business success; conditions that are similar to those emerging in China today.