Ellen Widmer

From May Fourth to June Fourth: Fiction and Film in Twentieth-Century China - Harvard Contemporary China Series Ellen Widmer

Commendation Quotes: "From May Fourth to June Fourth" will he warmly welcomed. It should be of great interest to all concerned with literary developments in the contemporary world on the one hand, and on the other with the enigmas surrounding China's alternating attempts to develop and to destroy herself as a civilization. Review Quotes: "From May Fourth to June Fourth" will he warmly welcomed. It should be of great interest to all concerned with literary developments in the contemporary world on the one hand, and on the other with the enigmas surrounding China's alternating attempts to develop and to destroy herself as a civilization.--Cyril Birch "University of California, Berkeley "Marc Notes: Also avail. in cloth crusades & millenarianism. Publisher Marketing: What do the Chinese literature and film inspired by the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) have in common with the Chinese literature and film of the May Fourth movement (1918-1930)? This new volume in the Harvard Contemporary China Series - now under the editorial direction of Harvard University Press - demonstrates that these two periods of the highest literary and cinematic creativity in 20th-century China share several aims: to liberate these narrative arts from previous aesthetic orthodoxies, to draw on foreign sources for inspiration, and to free individuals from social conformity.

Contributor Bio:  Widmer, Ellen Ellen Widmer is Professor of Chinese Literature at Wesleyan University. Contributor Bio:  Wang, David D David D. Wang is a Chinese language training officer at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra and a freelance writer. He has written many articles on various aspects of Chinese history and culture, as well as on Xinjiang affairs.