Image from Google Jackets
Image from OpenLibrary

1919 - The Year That Changed China : A New History of the New Culture Movement / Elisabeth Forster.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Transformations of Modern China ; 2Publisher: München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 250 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110560718
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No title; No titleDDC classification:
  • 951.04/1 23
LOC classification:
  • DS775.2 .F67 2018
  • DS776.4 .F67 2018
Other classification:
  • NQ 5760
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Early 1919 - Reforms to save the nation -- 2. May 4, 1919 - Rumors and conspiracy theories -- 3. Late 1919 - Marketing with the "New Culture Movement" -- 4. The 1920s and 1930s - The limits of the New Culture Movement -- 5. 1919 to 2016 - Canonizing a buzzword -- Conclusion -- Glossary of Terms -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
E-Book E-Book De Gruyter Available

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Early 1919 - Reforms to save the nation -- 2. May 4, 1919 - Rumors and conspiracy theories -- 3. Late 1919 - Marketing with the "New Culture Movement" -- 4. The 1920s and 1930s - The limits of the New Culture Movement -- 5. 1919 to 2016 - Canonizing a buzzword -- Conclusion -- Glossary of Terms -- Bibliography -- Index

unrestricted online access star

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.

Issued also in print.

funded by Knowledge Unlatched

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

University of Rizal System
Email us at univlibservices@urs.edu.ph

Visit our Website www.urs.edu.ph/library

Powered by Koha