Contours and Templates: Assessing the Re-assessments of May Fourth

Strauss, Julia

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.

Citation

Strauss, J. (2019). Contours and Templates: Assessing the Re-assessments of May Fourth. Twentieth-century China, 44(2), 253-258. https://doi.org/10.1353/tcc.2019.0023

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Nov 15, 2018
• Publication Date: May 1, 2019
• Deposit Date: Feb 8, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 8, 2019
• Journal: Twentieth Century China
• Print ISSN: 1521-5385
• Electronic ISSN: 1940-5065
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 44
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 253-258
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tcc.2019.0023
• Keywords: China, May Fourth Movement, commemoration, social movement template