The Other Vernacular: Commoner Knowledge Culture Circa 1919

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dc.contributor.author	Judge Joan
dc.title	The Other Vernacular: Commoner Knowledge Culture Circa 1919
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This essay complicates our understanding of the May Fourth Movement of the late 19teens by isolating a layer of culture that was integral to the era but largely forgotten in later scholarship. This cultural layer of discourse and practice intersected with two of the Movement’s most iconic projects – connecting with “the people” and establishing a vernacular language. This view from the cultural margins helps us excavate the less known byways and potentialities of what has come down to us as an epochal history. It further leads us to question the inevitability of established historical trajectories: from May Fourth populism to the mass politics of the PRC, from the vernacular movement to the linguistic form that stabilized to become baihua.
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/the-other-vernacular-commoner-knowledge-culture-ci/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-465-3/002
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	Common sayings
dc.subject	Common sayings
dc.subject	Folklore
dc.subject	Folklore
dc.subject	Hu Pu’an
dc.subject	Hu Pu’an
dc.subject	Vernacular language
dc.subject	Vernacular language
dc.subject	“The people”
dc.subject	“The people”

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The Other Vernacular: Commoner Knowledge Culture Circa 1919

Joan Judge York University, Canada

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This essay complicates our understanding of the May Fourth Movement of the late 19teens by isolating a layer of culture that was integral to the era but largely forgotten in later scholarship. This cultural layer of discourse and practice intersected with two of the Movement’s most iconic projects – connecting with “the people” and establishing a vernacular language. This view from the cultural margins helps us excavate the less known byways and potentialities of what has come down to us as an epochal history. It further leads us to question the inevitability of established historical trajectories: from May Fourth populism to the mass politics of the PRC, from the vernacular movement to the linguistic form that stabilized to become baihua.

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Dec. 21, 2020

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Sept. 7, 2020

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May 21, 2020

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978-88-6969-494-3

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978-88-6969-465-3

Keywords: Hu Pu’an • Vernacular language • Folklore • “The people” • Common sayings

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