Movement for a New Culture
The New Culture Movement ( Chinese 新文化 運動 / 新文化 运动 , Pinyin Xīn Wénhuà Yùndòng ) was a social movement in the Republic of China in the 1910s and 1920s with the aim of creating a new one on global and western standards such as democracy and science based culture .
The movement for a new culture developed in connection with the disillusionment with traditional Chinese culture and as a result of the disappointment with the undesirable developments in the Chinese republic founded in 1912 . Main representatives of the movement such as Chen Duxiu , Cai Yuanpei , Li Dazhao , Lu Xun and Hu Shi had received a classical Confucian education, but saw this as a major obstacle to the modernization of China, which was considered necessary .
You are committed to:
- the revision of ancient classics with the help of modern textual and critical methods
- the creation of vernacular literature
- the abolition of Confucian patriarchal family structures, individual liberation and the emancipation of women
- the recognition of the fact that China is just one nation among many and not the center of all civilization radiating in all directions
- democratic and egalitarian values
- In thinking, a general orientation towards the future instead of the past
The political aspects of the movement crystallized from 1919 onwards in the May Fourth Movement .
literature
- Guy S. Alitto: The Last Confucian. Liang Shu-Ming and the Chinese Dilemma of Modernity. University of California Press, Berkeley CA 1979, ISBN 0-520-03123-7 .
- Jerome B. Grieder: Hu Shih and the Chinese Renaissance. Liberalism in the Chinese Revolution, 1917-1937 (= Harvard East Asian Series. Vol. 46). Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 1970, ISBN 0-674-41250-8 .
- Leo Ou-fan Lee: Voices from the Iron House. A Study of Lu Xun. Indiana University Press, Bloomington IN et al. 1987, ISBN 0-253-36263-6 .
- Rana Mitter: A Bitter Revolution. China's Struggle with the Modern World. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2004, ISBN 0-19-280605-X .
- Vera Schwarcz: The Chinese Enlightenment. Intellectuals and the Legacy of the May Fourth Movement of 1919. University of California Press, Berkeley CA 1986, ISBN 0-520-05027-4 .
- Edmund SK Fung: The Intellectual Foundations of Chinese Modernity Cultural and Political Thought in the Republican Era. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2010. ISBN 978-0-521-19511-9 .