新书：《文化救国：民国时期的民俗学运动》

Saving the Nation through Culture

The Folklore Movement in Republican China

作者：Jie Gao

出版社：不列颠哥伦比亚大学出版社

出版时间：15 Apr 2019

ISBN:9780774838382

价格：$65.00

364 pages, 6 x 9

20 b&w photos

本书简介

The Modern Chinese Folklore Movement burst onto the scene at National Peking University between 1918 and 1926. A group of literary scholars, inspired by Western thought, turned to the study and revitalization of folklore – popular songs, beliefs, and customs – to rally the people around the flag during an era of deep postwar disillusionment.

Saving the Nation through Culture opens a new chapter in the world history of the Folklore Movement by exploring the origins and evolution of the discipline’s Chinese branch. Gao reveals that 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 and constructions 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 continues to influence Chinese intellectuals today.

Saving the Nation through Culture is for anyone interested in the cultural and intellectual history of modern China and the international history of folklore studies.

作者简介

Jie Gao is an assistant professor of history at Murray State University in Kentucky. Her work has appeared in several journals and books in Canada, China, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Education 

Ph.D., The University of Western Ontario, 2010 
M.A., Beijing University, 2003 
Double B.A., Beijing University, 2000

Publications 
Books: 
Saving the Nation through Culture—The Folklore Movement in Republican China (1918-1949), Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, February 2019.
Zhongguo ershi shiji tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror of 20th Century China), 1911-1915, Vol. 3, co-authored with Manhong Ji, Yongsheng Li and Jianyun Dong, Beijing: Xianzhuang shuju (Thread-Binding Books Publishing House), September 2002.
Peer Reviewed Articles 
“Refining Modern Beauties: Chinese Women in Cigarette Cards, 1900-37,” East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 237-254, September 2018.
“China’s Encounter with the West: Sino-French Relations before the Arrow War,” Yonsei Journal of International Studies: Politics & Culture, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 84-105, Spring-Summer 2017.
“The Architectural Symbolism of Chinese Imperial Power: The Magnificent Design, Distinct Colors and Lucky Numbers of the Forbidden City,” Education About Asia, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 9-17, Winter 2016.
“Promoting ‘Low Culture’: The Origin of the Modern Chinese Folklore Movement,” Canadian Journal of History, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 3-30, Spring-Summer 2015.
“Bangqiu: MLB’s Role in Baseball's Comeback in the People’s Republic of China,” co-authored with Sean J. McLaughlin, The International Journal of the History of Sport, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 332-350, February 2015 (Published online: 09 Jun 2014).
“Brushed Past: U.S.-CCP Relations, 1941-45,” co-authored with Sean J. McLaughlin, Yonsei Journal of International Studies: Law & Order, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 39-63, Spring-Summer 2014.
“Chinese Women’s Clothing in Transition during the 20th Century,” Quarterly Journal of Chinese Studies, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 8-28, Spring 2013.
“Sun Zhongshan yu meizhou hongmen zhigongtang” (Sun Yat-sen and the Freemanson Organization in America), in Sun Zhongshan yu xinhai geming (Sun Yat-sen and the Revolution of 1911), edited by Xu Wanmin, pp. 511- 533, Beijing: Beijing tushu chubanshe (Peking Library Press), October, 2002. 
Translations and Short Articles: 
Translation of Chang Jui-te’s “Bombs don’t Discriminate? Class, Gender, and Ethnicity in the Air-Raid-Shelter Experiences of the Wartime Chongqing Population,” in James Flath and Norman Smith (eds.), Beyond Suffering: Recounting War in Modern China (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2011), pp. 59-79.
“Why They Served. Patriotism, Vengeance and Idealism: Why Canadians Fought in the First World War,” with Sean J. McLaughlin, The Observer (Sarnia, Ontario), November 8, 2008, C1. 
“Zouguo bainian (1951-1960),” (A part of one Century of Activity—Walking Through a Hundred Years, 1901-2000 [1951-1960]), Beijing Youth Daily, 30th edition, December 12 & 13, 2000.

目录

Introduction

1 Seeking a Solution for the Nation: The Folklore Movement’s Origins at National Peking University

2 Carrying on amidst Chaos: Establishment of Folklore Studies in South China

3 Developing an Excellent Situation: The Spread of the Folklore Movement in China

4 Breaking with the Past: The Folklore Movement in Wartime

Conclusion

Appendices; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

REVIEWS

Every scholar of twentieth-century China will need to read this book. Gao has read and analyzed every shred of material that exists on the Folklore Movement and has created a fresh understanding of how it emerged and its long-term influence. —— Laurence Schneider, professor emeritus, Department of History, Washington University