Saving the nation through culture the folklore movement in republican China
The Modern Chinese Folklore Movement coalesced at National Peking University between 1918 and 1926. A group of academics, inspired by Western thought, turned to the study of folklore - popular songs, beliefs, and customs - to rally people around the flag. Saving the Nation through Culture opens a ne...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Copenhagen
NIAS Press
2020
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| Schriftenreihe: | Monographs series / Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
no. 148 |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The Modern Chinese Folklore Movement coalesced at National Peking University between 1918 and 1926. A group of academics, inspired by Western thought, turned to the study of folklore - popular songs, beliefs, and customs - to rally people around the flag. Saving the Nation through Culture opens a new chapter in the history of the Folklore Movement by exploring the evolution of the discipline's Chinese branch. Gao reveals that intellectuals in the New Culture Movement influenced the founding folklorists with their aim to repudiate Confucianism following the Chinese Republic's failure to modernize the nation. The folklorists, however, faced a unique challenge - advocating for modern academic methods while upholding folklore as the key to the nation's salvation. Largely unknown in the West and underappreciated in China, the Modern Folklore Movement failed to achieve its goal of reinvigorating the Chinese nation. But it helped establish a modern discipline, promoting a spirit of academic independence that influences Chinese intellectuals today. |
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| Beschreibung: | "First edition published in 2019 by UBC Press, The University of British Columbia ..." |
| Beschreibung: | ix, 352 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9788776942793 978-87-7694-279-3 |