Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Individualism in Modern China: The Chenbao Fukan and the New Culture Era, 1918-1928

by Xiaoqun Xu

Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Individualism in Modern China explores Chinese intellectual life and cultural practices in the New Culture era of modern China by examining an influential newspaper supplement published in Beijing during 1918-1928, as well as other contemporary sources. Xu highlights a key intellectual-moral paradox in Chinese discourses between cosmopolitanism as an idealistic aspiration and nationalism as a practical imperative,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 073918914X
• ISBN13: 9780739189146
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"