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This is a set of pioneering studies on Chinese encyclopaedias of modern knowledge (1870-1930). At a transitional time when modern knowledge was sought after yet few modern schools were available, these works were crucial sources of information for an entire generation. This volume investigates many of these encyclopaedias, which were never reprinted and are hardly known even to specialists, for the first time. The contributors to this collection all specialize in the period in question and have worked together for a number of years. The resulting studies show that these encyclopaedias open a unique window onto the migration and ordering systems of knowledge across cultural and linguistic borders

Incomplete modernity: rethinking the May Fourth intellectual project /Leo Ou-fan Lee --The canonization of May Fourth /Rudolf G. Wagner --Literary historiography in early twentieth-century China (1904-1928): constructions of a cultural memory /Milena Doleželová-Velingerová --The end of the past: rewriting Chinese literary history in the early republic /Stephen Owen --The rhetoric of retrospection: May Fourth literary history and the Ming-Qing woman writer /Ellen Widmer --Root literature in the 1980's: May Fourth as a double burden /Catherine Vance Yeh --Return to go: fictional innovation in the late Qing and the late twentieth century /David Der-wei Wang --Neither Renaissance nor Enlightenment: a historian's reflections on the May Fourth movement /Ying-shi Yü.