From May Fourth to June Fourth will he warmly welcomed. It should be of great interest to all concerned with literary developments in the contemporary world on the one hand, and on the other with the enigmas surrounding China's alternating attempts to develop and to destroy herself as a civilization.
   --Cyril Birch

Ellen Widmer is Professor of Chinese Literature at Wesleyan University.

David Der-wei Wang is Edward C. Henderson Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Harvard University.

Read More by Ellen Widmer:

• The Margins of Utopia: Shui-hu hou-chuan and the Literature of Ming Loyalism
• The Appropriation of Cultural Capital: China's May Fourth Project
• Writing and Materiality in China: Essays in Honor of Patrick Hanan
• Trauma and Transcendence in Early Qing Literature
• The Beauty and the Book: Women and Fiction in Nineteenth-Century China
• Writing and Materiality in China: Essays in Honor of Patrick Hanan

Read More by David Der-wei Wang:

• The Appropriation of Cultural Capital: China's May Fourth Project
• Dynastic Crisis and Cultural Innovation: From the Late Ming to the Late Qing and Beyond