1919 – The Year That Changed China

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This book would have never been written without the help of the many people who have supported me over the past years. First and foremost, my thanks go to my PhD supervisor Peter Ditmanson for his invaluable help at all stages of the project. I would also like to thank my thesis examiners Margaret Hillenbrand and Leigh Jenco, my academic mentor Rana Mitter, my teachers Henrietta Harrison, Laura Newby and Barend ter Haar, as well as my colleagues

The KMT’s Shifting Approach to the Outside World during the 1920s: A Reinvention of Chinese Confucianism

“…37 The New Culture Movement (Xinwenhua yundong 新文化運動) is a cultural movement that began in 1915 to promote democracy and science. 38 The May Fourth Movement (Wusi yundong 五四運動) was a Chinese youth student movement that saw students in Beijing 北 京 marching and demonstrating on May Fourth 1919, to protest the Paris Peace Conference (Bali hehui 巴黎和會) resolution on Shandong 山東, as Shandong was ceded to Japan, where they urged the then Beiyang government not to sign the contract and demanded that the officials involved should be punished. 39 The outbreak of the May Fourth Movement led the Chinese intellectuals of the time to seek a way to save the country, and Marxism began to spread into China.…”