May 4th Movement
Born on May Fourth:
The New Culture Movement and its Influence on Early Communist Rhetoric
by Vincent Galvin
History 131
Professor Lee
18 December 2001
"As long as there shall be stones, he seeds of fire will not die."
Lu Xun, December 1935
On May Fourth 1919 over three thousand Beijing intellectuals met in Tiananmen Square to protest the results of the Paris Peace Treaty. The protesters disagreed with the Beijing government's decision to accept the lot given China in the post-war world. Over the next month students and workers from across China marched, held strikes, and boycott Japanese and western products, eventually causing the Chinese government to capitulate to their demands and make a stand on the world stage. This was the first mass protest in 20th century Chinese history and would serve as an example and inspiration for the next century of communist politics.
By 1914, when the First World War began, the Chinese government was still extremely......
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