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Contours and Templates: Assessing the Reassessments of May Fourth
- Twentieth-Century China
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 44, Number 2, May 2019
- pp. 253-258
- 10.1353/tcc.2019.0023
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract:
Although May Fourth has received an extraordinary amount of scholarly attention for decades, its contours and periodization remain blurred and contested. This article suggests that the significance of May Fourth resides in the ways in which it established a fundamentally new template for student led social movements that fused novel notions of progress with older ones of remonstrance, thus achieving transcendence in public performance.