Denise Gimpel: 2 books
Chen Hengzhe
A Life between Orthodoxies
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
This book takes as its starting point the life, activities, and writings of Chen Hengzhe (1890-1976) in order to investigate the effects of transnational experience and in particular the manner in which different, foreign and Chinese, narratives of life were interwoven into activities and attitudes...
Beyond the May Fourth Paradigm
In Search of Chinese Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
When did China make the decisive turn from tradition to modernity? For decades, the received wisdom would have pointed to the May Fourth movement, with its titanic battles between the champions of iconoclasm and the traditionalists, and its shift to more populist forms of politics. A growing body...