The Birth of Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature Revolutions in Language, History, and Culture /

• Main Author: Gao, Yu (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Philology.; Linguistics.; Chinese language.; Oriental literature.; Language and Literature.; Chinese.; Asian Literature.

This study makes a linguistic case for the twentieth century revolution in Chinese language and literature. It offers a history of reform and change in the Chinese language throughout the country's history, and focuses on the concept of 'baihua', a language reform movement championed...

Table of Contents:

• Division of Literary Periods, Theory, and Awareness of Problems
• Language Reform and the Transformation of Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature.- Critique of the Theory on Baihua Writing
• The Baihua Movement and Ideological Revolution
• Foreignization and Assimilation: Translated World Literature and Modern Chinese Literature
• Nothing but Culture: The Pen War between Hu Shi and the Conservative Xueheng School
• Lu Xun's View of Language, His Writing and Its Relation to Modern Chinese Literature
• Hu Shi and Lu Xun: Pioneers of Modern Chinese Literature.