The year 1919 changed Chinese culture radically, but in a way that completely took
contemporaries by surprise. At the beginning of the year, even well-informed intellectuals …

This essay argues that the conservative/radical polarity by which we classify May Fourth
intellectuals originated in the New Youth group's polemical stratagem of depicting the …

For several decades, we have been witnessing a profound renewal in our understanding of
the" New Culture Movement". However, the aptness of" new culture" as a proper translation …

Honorable Mention, 2022 Sharon Harris Book Award presented by the University of
Connecticut Humanities Institute Focusing on four key Chinese intellectuals of the first half of …

This article explores the changing historical referents that Qing officials used in arguing for
the extension of direct governance to the empire's frontier regions from the 1870s to the …

Early twentieth-century China was, it has been said, plagued by an 'inferiority complex', that
is, the notion that Western culture was superior to the Chinese one. Consequently, many …

By retrieving the philosophy of the long-forgotten late Qing dynasty scholarofficial Gu
Hongming, it is demonstrated how Gu's thesis on the Religion of Good Citizenship promises …

All our traditional ethics, law, scholarship, rites and customs are survivals of feudalism.
When compared with the achievement of the white race, there is a difference of a thousand …

In 1938, Hasan al-Banna, founder and supreme guide of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood,
then the largest Islamic movement in the Middle East and North Africa, wrote a treatise for …

Although science has been central to the history and historiography of the May Fourth
Movement, our understanding of how May Fourth concerns influenced scientific discourses …