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On May 4th 1919, five thousand students in Beijing protested China's diplomatic failure at the Paris Peace Conference. This was only the beginning of a much larger development. Eventually growing to the New Culture Movement, China's socially hierarchical system of strict tradition was clearly under attack by this. In the beginning of the novel, two conflicts are immediately described. There is a split in society between education and the military (Chin 15) and there is a sign that females are beginning to win new rights, as symbolized by the fact that girl students are soon to be accepted in what was previously an all-male school. The dispute over funding of the school system and the military is meant to show the fissures that occur in a changing society, one in which conflicts reverberate down from the government to affect all citizens directly or indirectly. How is the China of this era going to pursue both foreign goals as well as develop its domestic strengths through......

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