1919 - The Year That Changed China : A New History of the New Culture Movement (Volume 2)

The year 1919 changed Chinese culture radically, but in a way that completely took contemporaries by surprise. At the beginning of the year, even well-informed intellectuals did not anticipate that, for instance, baihua (aprecursor of the modern Chinese language), communism, Hu Shi and Chen Duxiu wo...

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Main Author: Forster, Elisabeth (auth)
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Published: De Gruyter 2018
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