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 Touches of History: An Entry into 'May Fourth' China

Contents

• • Preliminary Material (i-x)   (1M)
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    • Contents
    • Author’s Preface To The English Translation
    • Note From The Translators
  • Introduction Seeing History In Texts, Showing Essences Through Details (1-10)   (664K)
  • On The Day Of May The Fourth: An Alternative Narrative Of The ‘May Fourth’ Movement (11-66)   (876K)
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    • About The ‘May Fourth Movement’
    • The Day Of May The Fourth
    • Gathering At The Gate Of Heavenly Peace
    • The Humiliation At East Jiaomin Alley
    • Burning Down Zhaojialou
    • Locked Up Overnight In The Police Station
    • How To Get Inside History
    • Back To The Actual Scene Of ‘May Fourth’
    • Appendix
  • Literature From The Perspective Of Intellectual History: Studies Of New Youth (67-150)   (1M)
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    • The ‘Spiritual Unification’ Of An Associates Magazine
    • Keeping The Focus On Philosophy And Literature
    • Supporting The Literary Cause By Means Of A ‘Campaign’
    • Dialogue On Literary Form And Drafts Of Ideology
    • Advancing Learning And Monopolizing Public Opinion
    • Cultural Capital And Historical Memory
  • Enquiring Into The Meaning Of The University: Cai Yuanpei As An Educationist (151-208)   (870K)
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    • The Ideal Of The ‘Inclusive’ University
    • A Different Interpretation Of The PKU Tradition
    • Art Education At The Old PKU
  • How To Formulate Knowledge: The Vernacular Writing Of Zhang Taiyan (209-271)   (892K)
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    • Pride Of Ancient Prose And Vanguard Of Vernacular Language
    • The Appeal Of ‘Promoting The Restoration Without Abandoning Learning’
    • Exclusive Insight And Affective Comments
    • Another Source Of The Vernacular Language
  • The Shaping Of The Canon: How The Zhou Brothers And Others Edited Hu Shi’s Poems (272-346)   (962K)
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    • The Scrapping Of The Poems
    • Old Friends’ Opinions
    • Students’ Suggestions
    • The Zhou Brothers’ Views
    • Hu Shi’s Self-Adjustments
    • Establishing A Canonical Position
  • Writings In The Margins Of ‘New Culture’: New Discoveries From Among Heaps Of Old Papers (347-410)   (919K)
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    • The ‘National Heritage’ That Ended Up Abroad
    • An Unexpected Encounter With ‘Old PKU’ In Paris
    • A History Of Literature Not To Be Forgotten
  • Bibliography (411-425)   (706K)
  • Index (426-437)   (156K)