Series | Translating Wor(l)ds
Volume 4 | Edited book | May Fourth and Translation
May Fourth and Translation
open access | peer reviewed-
edited by
- Kevin Henry - University of Mons, Belgium - email
Abstract
The May 4th Movement in 1919 – and more broadly the so-called New Culture movement in the 1910s and 1920s, – a landmark in the history of China, was marked by a great wave of translations, without precedent other than the one inspired by the Buddhist faith more than 1000 years before. This volume, which includes five papers presented at the conference 4 May 1919: History in Motion (Université de Mons, Belgium, 2-4 May 2019), seeks to define and measure, in all its dimensions and complexity (from tragic theatre to revolutionary novels to literary journals), the impact of this intense translation effort in the early years of Republican China.
Keywords Agents of translation • Common sayings • May Fourth movement • Melancholy • Modern Chinese literature • Frame space • May Fourth Movement • Tragedy • Xu Zhongnian • Marginalia • New Tide • Translation • Jing Yinyu • Modernity • Vernacular language • Institut Franco-chinois de Lyon • Hu Pu’an • May 4th Movement • Cosmopolitism • Ba Jin • Utopianism • Folklore • Sadness • “The people” • Beiju, 悲剧 • Anarchism • May Fourth
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-465-3 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-465-3 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-494-3 | Published Dec. 21, 2020 | Language en
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