Today, Chinese characters are described as a national treasure, the core of the nation’s civilizational identity. Yet for nearly half of the twentieth century, reformers waged war on the Chinese script. They declared it an archaic hindrance to modernization, portraying the ancient system of writing as a roadblock to literacy and therefore science and democracy. Movements spanni...(展开全部)

Today, Chinese characters are described as a national treasure, the core of the nation’s civilizational identity. Yet for nearly half of the twentieth century, reformers waged war on the Chinese script. They declared it an archaic hindrance to modernization, portraying the ancient system of writing as a roadblock to literacy and therefore science and democracy. Movements spanni...(展开全部)

Today, Chinese characters are described as a national treasure, the core of the nation’s civilizational identity. Yet for nearly half of the twentieth century, reformers waged war on the Chinese script. They declared it an archaic hindrance to modernization, portraying the ancient system of writing as a roadblock to literacy and therefore science and democracy. Movements spanni...(展开全部)

In Revolution and Form, Jianhua Chen offers a detailed analysis of several early works by Mao Dun, focusing in particular on their engagement with themes of modernity and revolution, gender and desire. One of the leading authors of the early twentieth century May Fourth period, Mao Dun had a complicated relationship with both the Communist Party and the women’s liberation movem...(展开全部)

This catalog is a compilation of some of the best calendar posters produced during 1910s to 1930s, with the main theme focuses on Chinese women during those periods. It features artworks by such famous painters in Shanghai as Zheng Mantuo, Zhou Muqiao, Hang Zhiying, Li Mubai, Jin Xuechen and Xie Zhiguang. Also included are essays on the history and aesthetic of calendar posters...(展开全部)

The emergence of the Chinese socialist realist novel can best be understood in light of the half-century long formation of the modern concept of literature in China. Globalized in the wake of modern capitalism, literary modernity configures the literary text in a relationship to both modern philosophy and literary theory. This book traces China's unique, complex, and creative a...(展开全部)

The emergence of the Chinese socialist realist novel can best be understood in light of the half-century long formation of the modern concept of literature in China. Globalized in the wake of modern capitalism, literary modernity configures the literary text in a relationship to both modern philosophy and literary theory. This book traces China's unique, complex, and creative a...(展开全部)

What happens when language wars are not about hurling insults or quibbling over meanings, but are waged in the physical sounds and shapes of language itself? Native and foreign speakers, mother tongues and national languages, have jostled for distinction throughout the modern period. The fight for global dominance between the English and Chinese languages opens into historical ...(展开全部)

What happens when language wars are not about hurling insults or quibbling over meanings, but are waged in the physical sounds and shapes of language itself? Native and foreign speakers, mother tongues and national languages, have jostled for distinction throughout the modern period. The fight for global dominance between the English and Chinese languages opens into historical ...(展开全部)

全书如同一个充满戏剧性张力的故事，既有宏观性的国际视野，又有耐人寻味的历史细节。从催生汉字革命的语音中心主义转向开始，讨论汉字革命的发生、变异和中止。跟随着作者的论述，可以看到20世纪多位语言学家和文学家如赵元任、瞿秋白、许地山、晏阳初、叶圣陶、陈梦家、唐兰等参与汉字革命的经历，他们背景和立场各异，所提供的汉字改革方案也侧重各异，而汉字革命在中国一步步的变异，正与中国革命的紧张进程相呼应、重叠，从二十世纪初，历经五四、抗战、新中国成立，时代洪流为汉字革命赋予了不同面向。在最后，通过对周有光的介绍，阐明了汉字革命结束后的“余波”，并表示了汉字革命虽然已经中止，但“语文事业未竟”。 -- 20世纪中国，风起云涌的汉字革命是一个几被遗忘的重要历史事件。这场革命与新文化运动和白话文运动伴生同行，在废除汉字的号召下，试图在中文土壤里移植拼音字母系统、拼写大众声...(展开全部)