Contested centenary: remembering the May Fourth movement in the PRC and across Chinese communities
History is no small matter in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Many readers are probably familiar with the historical narrative of the so-called ‘century of humiliation’ that commenced with the First Opium War from 1839 to 1842. This relevance of history in China goes beyond a mere case of ‘...
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| description | History is no small matter in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Many readers are probably
familiar with the historical narrative of the so-called ‘century of humiliation’ that commenced with
the First Opium War from 1839 to 1842. This relevance of history in China goes beyond a mere
case of ‘using the past to serve the present’, however: long before the ascent of Mao Zedong, it
was believed that one could ‘know the future in the mirror of the past’ (jianwang zhilai). The writing
of history was about disclosing the ideal moral order that had been realised during a past Golden
Age. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1616862023-03-11T20:08:05Z Contested centenary: remembering the May Fourth movement in the PRC and across Chinese communities van Dongen, Els School of Humanities Humanities::History::Asia::China History is no small matter in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Many readers are probably familiar with the historical narrative of the so-called ‘century of humiliation’ that commenced with the First Opium War from 1839 to 1842. This relevance of history in China goes beyond a mere case of ‘using the past to serve the present’, however: long before the ascent of Mao Zedong, it was believed that one could ‘know the future in the mirror of the past’ (jianwang zhilai). The writing of history was about disclosing the ideal moral order that had been realised during a past Golden Age. 2022-09-14T08:33:37Z 2022-09-14T08:33:37Z 2019 Working Paper van Dongen, E. (2019). Contested centenary: remembering the May Fourth movement in the PRC and across Chinese communities. The Asia Dialogue (July 2019), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/161686 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/161686 https://theasiadialogue.com/2019/07/page/3/ en The Asia Dialogue (July 2019) © 2019 The Author(s). All rights reserved. This paper was published in The Asia Dialogue and is made available with permission of The Author(s). application/pdf Asia Research Institute |
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| title | Contested centenary: remembering the May Fourth movement in the PRC and across Chinese communities |
| title_full | Contested centenary: remembering the May Fourth movement in the PRC and across Chinese communities |
| title_fullStr | Contested centenary: remembering the May Fourth movement in the PRC and across Chinese communities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Contested centenary: remembering the May Fourth movement in the PRC and across Chinese communities |
| title_short | Contested centenary: remembering the May Fourth movement in the PRC and across Chinese communities |
| title_sort | contested centenary remembering the may fourth movement in the prc and across chinese communities |
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