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Preliminary Material /Milena Doleželová-Velingerová --Introduction /Milena Doleželová-Velingerová and David Der-wei Wang --Incomplete Modernity: Rethinking the May Fourth Intellectual Project /Milena Doleželová-Velingerová --The Canonization of May Fourth /Rudolf G. Wagner --Literary Historiography in Early Twentieth, Century China (1904-1928 ): Constructions of Cultural Memory /Milena Doleželová-Velingerová --The End of the Past: Rewriting Chinese Literary History in the Early Republic /Stephen Owen --The Rhetoric of Retrospection: May Fourth Literary History and the Ming-Qing Woman Writer /Ellen Widmer --Root Literature of the 1980s: May Fourth as a Double Burden /Catherine Vance Yeh --Return to Go: Fictional Innovation in the Late Qing and the Late Twentieth Century /David Der-wei Wang --Neither Renaissance nor Enlightenment: A Historian's Reflections on the May Fourth Movement /Ying-shih Yü --Index /Milena Doleželová-Velingerová --Harvard East Asian Monographs /Milena Doleželová-Velingerová.