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Dolezelova-Velingerova, Milena; Wang, David Der-wei

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“…This multiplicity attests to a richly ambiguous and messy time prior to the establishment of orthodoxy, when those sharing radical and left-leaning views, such as Shen Yanbing and Chen Duxiu, still held divergent positions on how to group their peer intellectuals. 65 At a time when many in the field have become increasingly aware of the long shadow cast by the New Culturalists' self-narratives on May Fourth historiography, 66 the resuscitation of this multiplicity is strategically important. Rather than replacing the New Culture-centered scheme with any of these alternative schemes, the juxtaposition of multiple possibilities of grouping brings into focus the need to supersede the polarity mode of classification with a more fluid and multidimensional model for the study of May Fourth intellectuals and how they related to one another.…”

Section: The Critical Review and Its Polemical Campaignmentioning

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Polarities and the May Fourth Polemical Culture: Provenance of the "Conservative" Category

Kuo¹

2019

Twentieth-Century China

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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 intellectual landscape in terms of a "New Culturalists vs. the rest" divide. In this stratagem, those who later became "the conservatives" were lumped together for dissenting from the New Culture movement and largely defined by who they were not. Historiographically, the establishment of this polarity scheme sidelined alternative mappings of the intellectual scene. Drawing on the case of the Critical Review (1922)(1923)(1924)(1925)(1926)(1927)(1928)(1929)(1930)(1931)(1932)(1933)-a journal of "cultural conservatism"-and its polemics against the New Culture, this essay explores one such alternative mapping that grouped "conservative" thinker Liang Shuming with the New Culturalists. Taking this paradigm as one of many that existed before the mid-1920s, the essay discusses the juxtaposition of multiple schemes of grouping as a strategy for superseding the polarity mode of classification.

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Section: The Critical Review and Its Polemical Campaignmentioning

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Polarities and the May Fourth Polemical Culture: Provenance of the "Conservative" Category

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