The Chinese Enlightenment: Intellectuals and the Legacy of the May Fourth Movement of 1919

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University of California Press, 1986 - 393 páginas
It is widely accepted, both inside China and in the West, that contemporary Chinese history begins with the May Fourth Movement. Vera Schwarcz's imaginative new study provides China scholars and historians with an analysis of what makes that event a turning point in the intellectual, spiritual, cultural and political life of twentieth-century China.
 

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The Particularity
1
The Making of a New Generation
12
xiv
76
12
87
The May Fourth Enlightenment
119
The Crucible of Political Violence 19251927
145
Toward a New Enlightenment 19281938
196
May Fourth as Allegory
240
Members of the New Tide Society
303
Officers of the New Tide Society
305
Glossary
349
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Vera Schwarcz is Professor of East Asian Studies and History at Wesleyan University.

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