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May Fourth Movement
五四運動
Around 3,000 students from 13 universities in Beijing gathered in Tiananmen Square
Date4 May 1919 Edit this on Wikidata
Location
Republic of China
Resulted in
  • Pro-Japanese officials removed
  • Treaty of Versailles not signed by China
  • Premier Qian Nengxun's government weakened
  • Student and labor movements continued
  • New Culture Movement split
  • Spread of communism
Parties
Protesters
May Fourth Movement Republic of China
May Fourth Movement
Traditional Chinese五四運動
Simplified Chinese五四运动
Literal meaning5-4 Movement

The May Fourth Movement was a Chinese cultural and anti-imperialist political movement which grew out of student protests in Beijing on May 4, 1919. Students gathered in front of Tiananmen to protest the Chinese government's weak response to the Treaty of Versailles decision to allow Japan to retain territories in Shandong that had been surrendered by Germany after the Siege of Tsingtao in 1914. The demonstrations sparked nation-wide protests and spurred an upsurge in Chinese nationalism, a shift towards political mobilization away from cultural activities, and a move towards a populist base, away from traditional intellectual and political elites.

The May Fourth demonstrations marked a turning point in a broader anti-traditional New Culture Movement (1915–1921) that sought to replace traditional Confucian values and was itself a continuation of late Qing reforms. Even after 1919, these educated "new youths" still defined their role with a traditional model in which the educated elite took responsibility for both cultural and political affairs.[1] They opposed traditional culture but looked abroad for cosmopolitan inspiration in the name of nationalism and were an overwhelmingly urban movement that espoused populism in an overwhelmingly rural country. Many political and social leaders of the next five decades emerged at this time, including those of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).[2]

  1. ^ Schwarcz 1986, pp. 9–11.
  2. ^ Hayford (2009), p. 569.

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