1919 – The year that changed China: a new history of the new culture movement
1919 – The year that changed China: a new history of the new culture movement
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 diversified and decentered picture of Republican China developed in recent scholarship. It is a lively and ironic narrative about cultural change through academic infighting, rumors and conspiracy theories, newspaper stories and intellectuals (hell-)bent on selling agendas through powerful buzzwords.
An open access version is available on the publisher's website (https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110560718/html?lang=en).
Forster, Elisabeth
5b83dcba-7458-48bc-bd25-e2833d542bb4
2018
Forster, Elisabeth
5b83dcba-7458-48bc-bd25-e2833d542bb4
Forster, Elisabeth
(2018)
1919 – The year that changed China: a new history of the new culture movement
(Transformations of Modern China, 2),
vol. 2,
Berlin.
De Gruyter, 250pp.
Abstract
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 diversified and decentered picture of Republican China developed in recent scholarship. It is a lively and ironic narrative about cultural change through academic infighting, rumors and conspiracy theories, newspaper stories and intellectuals (hell-)bent on selling agendas through powerful buzzwords.
An open access version is available on the publisher's website (https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110560718/html?lang=en).
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Published date: 2018
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Paperback edition in 2019.
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ISSN: 2511-6096
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