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HIS 374 / 574
REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS IN MODERN CHINA



THE MAY FOURTH MOVEMENT


BROADCAST DATE: MARCH 18, 1926  

(the day on which forty-seven students engaged in a demonstration in Beijing against the granting of more governmental concessions to Japan are killed by government troops)  

TOPIC:  

ways in which the activities and policies of the May Fourth Movement have contributed to the current revolutionary conditions in China  

PANELISTS:  

  • HU SHI / HU SHIH

  • (1891 - 1962), WRITER AND PHILOSOPHER EDUCATED IN THE UNITED STATES 
    [JOSIE ELBIRY]
      
  • CHEN DUXIU / CH'EN TU-HSIU 

  • (1879 - 1942), CO-FOUNDER OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY 
    [ANNETTE BIRT]


  • XIANG JINGYU / HSIANG CHING-YU
    EARLY FEMINIST
    [MARLENE LEVERETTE ]

This site has been prepared by Lee A. Makela (l.makela@csuohio.edu) for the use of students at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, who are enrolled in HIS 374 / 574, REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS IN MODERN CHINA during the Fall Semester of the 2003 - 2004 Academic Year; please contact him with any comments.  
last updated: February 25, 2004