Innovative or Rather Traditional? Confucianising Tragedy in May Fourth China

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dc.contributor.author	Fusini Letizia
dc.title	Innovative or Rather Traditional? Confucianising Tragedy in May Fourth China
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	A key aspect of the May Fourth Movement was the critical discussion of Western tragedy. While the interest in tragedy was sparked by the assumption that China lacked an analogous genre, its interpretation and adaptation to the Chinese context suggests that a traditional ‘indigenous’ filter was applied to define its supposed ‘modernity’. Through cross-comparing Chinese conceptions of beiju 悲剧 in the May Fourth era and traditional Chinese views of bei 悲, this paper will seek to show that the Chinese reception of tragedy was informed by the rejuvenation of traditional ideas rather than the introduction of purely ‘Western’ theories.
dc.relation.ispartof	Translating Wor(l)ds
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-12-21
dc.dateAccepted	2020-09-07
dc.dateSubmitted	2020-05-21
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-465-3/innovative-or-rather-traditional-confucianising-tr/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-465-3/001
dc.identifier.issn	2610-9131
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-914X
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-494-3
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-465-3
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Beiju, 悲剧
dc.subject	Beiju, 悲剧
dc.subject	May Fourth movement
dc.subject	May Fourth movement
dc.subject	Melancholy
dc.subject	Melancholy
dc.subject	Modernity
dc.subject	Modernity
dc.subject	Sadness
dc.subject	Sadness
dc.subject	Tragedy
dc.subject	Tragedy

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Innovative or Rather Traditional? Confucianising Tragedy in May Fourth China

Letizia Fusini SOAS, University of London

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A key aspect of the May Fourth Movement was the critical discussion of Western tragedy. While the interest in tragedy was sparked by the assumption that China lacked an analogous genre, its interpretation and adaptation to the Chinese context suggests that a traditional ‘indigenous’ filter was applied to define its supposed ‘modernity’. Through cross-comparing Chinese conceptions of beiju 悲剧 in the May Fourth era and traditional Chinese views of bei 悲, this paper will seek to show that the Chinese reception of tragedy was informed by the rejuvenation of traditional ideas rather than the introduction of purely ‘Western’ theories.

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Dec. 21, 2020

Accepted

Sept. 7, 2020

Submitted

May 21, 2020

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978-88-6969-494-3

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978-88-6969-465-3

Keywords: Sadness • Modernity • Tragedy • May Fourth movement • Beiju, 悲剧 • Melancholy

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