New Humanism

dc.contributor.author	Li, Tonglu
dc.contributor.author	Li, Tonglu
dc.contributor.department	World Languages and Cultures
dc.date	2019-05-15T12:14:01.000
dc.date.accessioned	2020-06-30T05:47:04Z
dc.date.available	2020-06-30T05:47:04Z
dc.date.copyright	Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 UTC 2008
dc.date.issued	2008-03-01
dc.description.abstract	<p>Originally proposed by Irving Babbitt and Elmer More, and inspired by Buddhist and Confucian philosophies, New Humanism opposed the moral decline fostered by relativist and determinist beliefs and by an increasingly materialistic American society during the early twentieth century. Brought back to China and transformed by Chinese scholars who had studied with Babbitt, New Humanism became a counternarrative to the May Fourth Movement, to Marxism, and to radicalism in general. This essay delineates the roles New Humanism played in China, its internal contradictions, and its intricate relationship with hegemonic discourses by examining the literary practices of three New Humanists who demonstrated, respectively, ideal/academic, political, and transcendental ways of engagement.</p>
dc.description.comments	<p>This article is published as Li,T., New Humanism,” <em>Modern Language Quarterly</em>, 69.1 (2008): 61–79. Doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-2007-025" target="_blank">10.1215/00267929-2007-025</a>.Posted with permission. </p>
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dc.subject.disciplines	American Literature
dc.subject.disciplines	Asian American Studies
dc.subject.disciplines	Chinese Studies
dc.subject.disciplines	Creative Writing
dc.subject.disciplines	East Asian Languages and Societies
dc.subject.disciplines	Technical and Professional Writing
dc.title	New Humanism
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