Description: During the 1920s, China's intellectuals called for a new literature, system of thought and orientation towards modern life: the May Fourth Movement or the New Culture Movement spilled beyond China to the overseas Chinese communities. This work analyzes the New Culture Movement from a diaspora perspective of the overseas Chinese in Singapore.
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'New Culture in a New World is well documented and written, and it has put forth several important these that need to be pondered seriously. Readers interested in the impact of the New Culture Movement and the intellectual articulation of Chinese diasporic consciousness in its early phase will find this book informative and helpful.' - China Information