MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE IN THE MAY FOURTH ERA ~SIGNED COPY

Goldman, Merle (Edited By)

ISBN 10: 0674579100 / ISBN 13: 9780674579101

Published by Cambridge MA & London UK. 1977. Harvard Univ. Press / Harvard East Asian series 89, 1977

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grey cloth hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. near fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. top edge has a couple of spots, other edges clean. SIGNED on the title page by one of the contributors (Feuerwerker), otherwise contents free of markings. dustwrapper in vg cond. bit of wrinkling & rubbing, 1" tear on front, not price clipped (no price listed). nice clean copy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no inking , no underlining, no remainder markings etc ~. first edition. first printing (NAP). VIII+464P + list of series titles. list of contributors. notes. index. chinese literature. chinese history. politics. ~"The essays are critically rigorous and original pieces. Students of Chinese literature and cultural history will have much to learn from the work. . The editing is skillful, drawing out consistent lines of argument to provide even generalists with enough material to frame their own point of view." ~Frederic Wakeman, University of California, Berkeley. One of the most creative and brilliant episodes in modern Chinese history, the cultural and literary flowering that takes the name of the May Fourth Movement, is the subject of this comprehensive and insightful book. Moreover, this is the first study of modern Chinese literature that shows how China's Confucian traditions were combined with Western influences to create a literature of new values and consciousness for the Chinese people. The many distinguished and versatile scholars who have contributed essays to this book demonstrate how romanticism, realism, naturalism, and symbolism were used by young Chinese writers in their search for modernity and the political independence of their country. The luminous literary response that burst forth in the 1920s and 1930s is analyzed in discerning studies of the foreign impact on specific writers like Lu Xun, Mao Dun, Yu Dafu, and Ding Ling, and on the relationship of May Fourth culture to the communist literature that followed. The richly textured essays, full of illuminating judgments, depict these May Fourth cultural leaders as highly articulate and emotionally charged persons who both reflected reality and tried to change it. Their new subjects and literary modes prepared the way for the epochal event of the communist revolution.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE IN THE MAY FOURTH ERA ~SIGNED COPY
• Publisher: Cambridge MA & London UK. 1977. Harvard Univ. Press / Harvard East Asian series 89
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674579100
• ISBN 13: 9780674579101
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • world history
  • chinese history
  • chinese litrature

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Synopsis

One of the most creative and brilliant episodes in modern Chinese history, the cultural and literary flowering that takes the name of the May Fourth Movement, is the subject of this comprehensive and insightful book. This is the first study of modern Chinese literature that shows how China's Confucian traditions were combined with Western influences to create a literature of new values and consciousness for the Chinese people.

About the Author

Merle Goldman is Professor of History, Emerita, at Boston University and Associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.