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As promised in its title, Simone O’Malley-Sutton’s The Chinese May Fourth Generation and the Irish Literary Revival: Writers and Fighters is a rare examination of the connection between the literature around the May Fourth Movement in China in 1919 and the Irish Literary Revival in Ireland (1900–1922). The spirit of the May Fourth Movement, often considered the Chinese Renaissance, was anti-colonial, sparked off by massive protests of Chinese students against the Republican government’s weak response to the Treaty of Versailles, which allowed Japan to retain territories in Shandong, a coastal province in northern China. The Irish Literary Revival, known also as the Irish Literary Renaissance or the Celtic Twilight, also marked a period of strong political nationalism with a revival of interest in the heritage of Gaelic literature, language, and culture. O’Malley-Sutton’s impressive volume reads the Irish Revivalists such as W. B. Yeats, Seán O’Casey, Lady Gregory, Eva Gore-Booth, and...
Finding Shaw Among His Irish and Chinese Contemporaries (The Chinese May Fourth Generation and the Irish Literary Revival: Writers and Fighters) Available to Purchase
KAY LI is an established Shaw scholar and Adjunct Professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is one of the founding members of the International Shaw Society, is the Project Leader of the SAGITTARIUS–ORION Digitizing Project on Bernard Shaw funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Arts and Artificial Intelligence project funded byCanadian Heritage. Her books include Bernard Shaw and China: Cross-Cultural Encounters (University Press of Florida, 2007), Bernard Shaw’s Bridges to Chinese Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), and Bernard Shaw, Automata, Robots, and Artificial Intelligence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). Kay has also published many articles in peer-reviewed journals, especially in SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies.
