Saving the Nation Through Culture: The Folklore Movement in Republican China
(Part of the NIAS Monographs (#148) Series and Contemporary Chinese Studies (UBC Press) Series)
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The Modern Chinese Folklore Movement coalesced at National Peking University between 1918 and 1926. A group of academics, inspired by Western thought, turned to the study of folklore--popular songs, beliefs, and customs--as a way to rally people around the flag. Saving the Nation through Culture opens a new chapter in the history of the international Folklore Movement by exploring the evolution of the discipline's Chinese branch. Jie Gao shows how intellectuals in the New Culture Movement influenced the founding folklorists with their aim to repudiate Confucianism following the Chinese Republic's failure to modernize the nation. The folklorists, however, faced a unique challenge: advocating for modern academic methods while upholding folklore as the key to the nation's salvation. Largely unknown in the West and underappreciated in China, the Modern Folklore Movement failed to achieve its goal of reinvigorating the Chinese nation. But it helped establish a modern discipline, promoting a spirit of academic independence that still influences Chinese intellectuals today.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0774838396
ISBN13:9780774838399
Release Date:September 2020
Publisher:University of British Columbia Press
Length:364 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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