China's May Fourth Movement: New Narratives and Perspectives
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Revisiting Core Questions of the May Fourth Movement: Discourse and Narratives -- A View From India -- Perceptions and Perspectives: A Diverse and Interdisciplinary Approach -- References -- Part I Rethinking the May Fourth Movement: An Interdisciplinary Approach -- 1 The May Fourth Movement of 1919: Nationalism and Predicaments of the Nation State in China -- Kang Youwei and Chinese Nationalism -- Zhou Zuoren and the Alternative Modernity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2 Modernising the Inner Sage: Citizen and Revolutionary Morality in the Late Qing -- Liang On Public Morality -- Revolutionary Morality -- The Role of Buddhism in Supporting Morality -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 Life After Death in the Chinese Revolution: The Dialogism of Ritual and Political Discourse in the May Fourth Period -- The Discursive Problematics -- Ancestors, Gods, and Suffering Souls: The Popular Discourse On Death and Immortality -- The Revolutionary Discourse and the Doctrine of 'Social Immortality' -- Suicides and Martyrs -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Evolution, Eternal Recurrence, and Lu Xun's Struggle With the Aporetic Temporalities of Capitalist Modernity: … -- Introduction -- The Aporetic Temporalities of Capitalist Modernity -- Capitalism and the Temporal Fabric of Evolutionary Theory -- The Capitalist Treadmill and Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence of the Same -- Eternal Recurrence Versus Evolutionary Theory -- Reapproaching Lu Xun's Yecao (Xu, Guoke, Ying De Gaobie) -- Xu -- Guoke and Ying De Gaobie -- Ying De Gaobie -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Creating New Culture Movement/May Fourth Binaries: Are Contemporary Chinese Interpretations of Wusi (五四) (Un) Histori -- Notes -- References.