Introduction / Kai-wing Chow, Tze-ki Hon, Hung-yok Ip, and Don C. Price
Part One : Commercial printing and language reform
Culture, capital and the temptations of the imagined market : the case of the Commercial Press / Ted Huters
Canon formation and linguistic turn : literary debates in Republican China, 1919-1949 / Jianhua Chen
Part Two : Gender and family
The theory and practice of women's rights in late-Qing Shanghai, 1843-1911 / Xiong Yuezhi
Exercising women's rights : debates on physical culture since the late nineteenth century / Denise Gimpel
Generational and cultural fissures in the May Fourth Movement : Wu Yu (1872-1949) and the politics of family reform / Kristin Stapleton
Part Three : Nation, science, and culture
The politics of fengjian in late-Qing and Republican China / Viren Murthy
How did the Chinese become native? : science and the search for national origins in the May Fourth era / Fa-ti Fan
Nationalizing sound on the verge of Chinese modernity / Frederick Lau
Part Four : Modernity and its Chinese critics
Buddhism, literature, and Chinese modernity : Su Manshu's Imaginings of love (1911-1916) / Hung-yok Ip
From Babbitt to "Bai Bide" : interpretations of new humanism in Xueheng / Tze-ki Hon
Epilogue
The other May Fourth : twilight of the old order / Lung-kee Sun.
Beyond the May Fourth paradigm : in search of Chinese modernity. ISBN 9780739111222. Published by Lexington Books in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.