Lost generation : Luo Zhenyu, Qing loyalists and the formation of modern Chinese culture
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Lost generation : Luo Zhenyu, Qing loyalists and the formation of modern Chinese culture
（Saffron Asian art & society series）
Saffron, c2012
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This volume investigates the roles as politician, antiquarian, art dealer, and publisher, of Luo Zhenyu (1866~1940) who, together with his circle of Qing loyalists (yilao), established modern historical and intellectual practices in late dynastic and early Republican China. Luo himself took the lead in defining Chinese culture at a critical moment in history, when an abundance of new materials, such as oracle bones and manuscripts from Dunhuang, were coming to light, and when new techniques could be employed in their publication. History has portrayed Luo Zhenyu and his loyalist circle as traitors twice over: first as obsolete remnants of an incompetent Qing government, then as collaborators in the Japanese puppet state of Manzhouguo (Man-chou-kuo, 1923~1945). Art-historical scholarship has hitherto equated Qing loyalists' cultural production with outmoded traditions, in direct opposition to modernisation. In contrast, this project considers the engagement with traditional culture by dispossessed loyalists as essential not just to the constitution of modernity in China, but also to the conceptualisation of East Asian art as a whole.
In this edited volume, eight chapters explore tradition as articulated through ethnic and political identifications by figures who engaged in 'modern' practices such as publishing, collecting and the burgeoning fields of archaeology, art history and intellectual history. The chapters are organised according to three major themes: New Ways of Looking at The Past, Circulating Objects of Knowledge, and Qing Loyalists: Reviled Pasts and Unstable Present. One of the strengths of this volume lies in a breadth of inquiry that breaks through conventional disciplinary boundaries. Any historical treatment of Luo Zhenyu, the Qing loyalists and other minority constituencies of early twentieth-century China, inured to the vagaries of collaboration and resistance, must negotiate a thicket of overlapping histories. In this spirit, this examination of Luo Zhenyu and his yilao circle will confront the taboos surrounding their reviled past to reveal a complex but crucial aspect of Chinese cultural history.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements 13
- Foreword Roderick Whitfield 15
- Contributors 17
- Introduction: A Lost Generation: Luo Zhenyu, Yilao and Modern Chinese Culture Yang Chia-Ling 18
- 1 Luo Zhenyu and the Formation of Qiwu and Qiwuxue in the First Decade of the Republican Era Wang Cheng-hua 32
- 2 Luo Zhenyu and the Predicament of Republican Period Antiques Collecting Shana J Brown 58
- 3 'Returning to the Classics, Trusting the Ancient:' Luo Zhenyu's Exploration of Traditional Chinese Identity in Modern China Pai Shih-mi ng 74
- 4 New Literati and the Reproduction of Antiquity: Contextualizing Luo Zhenyu and Wang Guowei Robert Culp 98
- 5 Luo Zhenyu and the 'Legacy of the Southern School' in Japan and the West Tama ki Maeda 122
- 6 A Newly Made Marketable 'Leftover': Luo Zhenyu's Scholarship and Art Business in Kyoto (1911~1919) Hong Zai xin 142
- 7 Deciphering Antiquity into Modernity: The Cultural Identity of Luo Zhenyu and the Qing Loyalists in Manzhouguo Yang Chia -Ling 172
- 8 Dilemma of Loyalty: Qing Loyalists and State Succession in the Early 20th Century Shao Dan 210
- 9 Circle of Luo Zhenyu Yang Chia -Ling 228
- 10 Chronology of Luo Zhenyu (1866~1940) YANG Chia -Ling & Roderic k Whitfield 238
- 11 Publications of Luo Zhenyu Yang Chia -Ling & Roderic k Whitfield 283
- Index 297
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