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Beyond the May Fourth Paradigm: In Search of Chinese Modernity (review)

Beyond the May Fourth Paradigm: In Search of Chinese Modernity (review) China Review International: Vol. 16, No. 2, 2009 Kai-Wing Chow, Tze-ki Hon, Hung-yok Ip, and Don C. Price, editors. Beyond the May Fourth Paradigm: In Search of Chinese Modernity. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield, 2008. ix, 341 pp. Hardcover $80.00, isbn 978-0-7391-1122-2. What happens when good essays are trapped in an unproductive framework? Beyond the May Fourth Paradigm is a collection of well-researched, well-written, and insightful essays, which are, however, compiled within a largely sterile agenda. While the collective contribution of the volume is, indeed, noteworthy and valuable, one cannot but regret that the paradigmatic trope chosen (an essentialized May Fourth) does not coherently structure and highlight the many insights. However, let us leave the paradigmatic issues for later and deal first with the substance of the book. The essays in this volume ostensibly share the goal of "decentering May Fourth," that is, displacing the position of centrality of the new culture intellectuals and activists (largely writ) in defining and shaping the Chinese experience of modernity. In that, Beyond the May Fourth Paradigm follows in the well-trodden path marked by, among many others, David Wang and Leo Lee and forms a pair with another edited volume, The http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png China Review International University of Hawai'I Press

Beyond the May Fourth Paradigm: In Search of Chinese Modernity (review)

Lanza, Fabio.
China Review International , Volume 16 (2) – Oct 31, 2009
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China Review International: Vol. 16, No. 2, 2009 Kai-Wing Chow, Tze-ki Hon, Hung-yok Ip, and Don C. Price, editors. Beyond the May Fourth Paradigm: In Search of Chinese Modernity. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield, 2008. ix, 341 pp. Hardcover $80.00, isbn 978-0-7391-1122-2. What happens when good essays are trapped in an unproductive framework? Beyond the May Fourth Paradigm is a collection of well-researched, well-written, and insightful essays, which are, however, compiled within a largely sterile agenda. While the collective contribution of the volume is, indeed, noteworthy and valuable, one cannot but regret that the paradigmatic trope chosen (an essentialized May Fourth) does not coherently structure and highlight the many insights. However, let us leave the paradigmatic issues for later and deal first with the substance of the book. The essays in this volume ostensibly share the goal of "decentering May Fourth," that is, displacing the position of centrality of the new culture intellectuals and activists (largely writ) in defining and shaping the Chinese experience of modernity. In that, Beyond the May Fourth Paradigm follows in the well-trodden path marked by, among many others, David Wang and Leo Lee and forms a pair with another edited volume, The

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