The Making of The New Culture Movement: A Discursive History
@article{Kuo2017TheMO, title={The Making of The New Culture Movement: A Discursive History}, author={Ya-pei Kuo}, journal={Twentieth-Century China}, year={2017}, volume={42}, pages={52 - 71} }
Abstract:This article argues that the “New Culture movement” as represented in current historiography was by and large constructed from 1923 to 1924. Wenhua yundong (cultural movement) was originally a common phrase referring to the post–May Fourth awakening to the power of modern mass communication. Xin wenhua yundong (New Culture movement) as a proper noun first emerged in Chen Duxiu’s polemics against alternative visions of cultural modernity in 1920. Propagandists of the Chinese Communist…
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