China is poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. This book goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from a premodern past into a modern world. Preface
x
List of Illustrations
xiii
Chronology
xv
Pronunciation, Transliterations, and Names
xviii
PART I: SHOCK
Flashpoint: 4 May 1919: The Making of a New China
3(38)
Why was May Fourth Important?
12(14)
The Fall of the Chinese Empire
26(9)
Uneasy Birth: The Chinese Republic
35(6)
A Tale of Two Cities: Beijing, Shanghai, and the May Fourth Generation
41(28)
Beijing: Intellectual Centre of the Movement
43(6)
Shanghai: China's Modern Challenge
49(5)
People: The May Fourth Generation
54(11)
Subcultures
65(4)
Experiments in Happiness: Life and Love in New Culture China
69(33)
New Classes, New Opportunities
70(6)
Print, Commerce, and Culture
76(1)
Love, Labour, and Liberty
77(3)
Ask Taofen!
80(10)
The May Fourth Entrepreneur
90(3)
Saving the Nation, Making a Profit
93(6)
End of an Era?
99(3)
Goodbye Confucius: New Culture, New Politics
102(53)
Iconoclasm
108(2)
Goodbye Confucius?
110(7)
China's Road to Nationalism
117(6)
Internationalism, Cosmopolitism, and Nationalism
123(4)
Looking East in Europe
127(2)
Not Just West and East: Thinking Beyond Europe
129(4)
Japan's Promise, Japan's Menace
133(1)
Party Politics
134(1)
The Communists
135(3)
The Nationalists
138(4)
Nationalists and Communists, United and Divided
142(4)
The Questions of Woman
146(3)
Conclusion: Goodbye May Fourth?
149(6)
PART II: AFTERSHOCK
A Land of Death: Darkness over China
155(45)
China Changes Shape, 1931--7
157(6)
The Choices of the May Fourth Generation
163(4)
China Falls Apart, 1937--45
167(11)
War and Confrontation
178(3)
The New World
181(9)
The Cold War
190(4)
The Great Leap Forward
194(4)
Conclusion: May Fourth in Abeyance
198(2)
Tomorrow the Whole World Will Be Red: The Cultural Revolution and the Distortions of May Fourth
200(44)
Considering the Cultural Revolution
207(3)
What was the Cultural Revolution?
210(4)
The Cold War and the Cultural Revolution
214(3)
Life and Death during the Red Guard Period
217(9)
Changing the Guard
226(4)
May Fourth or Not?
230(3)
The Cold War and the Romance of Technology
233(5)
Divisions: Red, Black, Men, Women
238(2)
Conclusion: A Strange May Fourth
240(4)
Ugly Chinamen and Dead Rivers: Reform and the `New May Fourth'
244(41)
The Late Cold War
246(2)
Life and Liberty in the `New Era'
248(7)
Xiahai: `Jumping into the Sea' of the New Society
255(3)
What Sort of Crisis?
258(2)
The Culture Fever Debates
260(2)
The Ugly Chinaman and Hesbang
262(7)
Echoes of May Fourth: The Different Crises
269(3)
Tian'anmen and the End of an Era
272(8)
The Nature of the New Era: Towards Chinese Democracy?
280(5)
Learning to Let Go: The May Fourth Legacy in the New Millennium
285(30)
The Two Cities Revisited
289(6)
Coping with the Past
295(6)
New Thinking
301(4)
Across the Straits
305(3)
Searching for a New Story
308(7)
Guide to Further Reading
315(10)
Notes
325(20)
Index
345
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