The classics are at the heart of traditional literature, and play an important role in its transmission. May Fourth writers did not totally reject traditional literary classics; rather, they selectively preserved and ...
This paper mainly discusses two key issues: how to evaluate the New Culture Movement and how to understand the relationship between enlightenment and the New Culture Movement. With regard to the former, the author pu...
Recent years have witnessed a phenomenon in Chinese academia, which denies the inevitable connection between May Fourth New Literature and the New Culture Movement during the May Fourth Movement period, and often view...
The May Fourth movement that ushered in China’s modern literature constitutes a central and inexhaustible tradition and topic. This paper proceeds from the Chinese literary community’s reflections on the May Fourth ...
On the question of the spiritual resources of May Fourth new literature, Cai Yuanpei (1868-1940) once said categorically that the 1919 May Fourth Movement was one of cultural transformation "modeled after Western h...
In past studies the positive role Liang Qichao played during the May Fourth New Cultural Movement was underestimated. As a matter of fact, Liang Qichao was not a conservative during the May Fourth Movement. He support...