May Fourth Movement: Intellectual Revolution in Modern China (East Asian S.)

Tse-tsung Chow

ISBN 10: 0674557506 / ISBN 13: 9780674557505

Published by Harvard University Press, 1960

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5th Edition 1980. Soft cover. Condition: good/very good. Book is solid and tight. Cover slightly work at edges and edges of spine otherwise very good. A good copy of this seminal work on Chinese 20th Century history.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: May Fourth Movement: Intellectual Revolution in Modern China (East Asian S.)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication Date: 1960
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674557506
• ISBN 13: 9780674557505
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 5th or later Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
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Synopsis

There are few major events in modern Chinese history so controversial, so much discussed, yet so inadequately treated as the May Fourth Movement. For some Chinese it marks a national renaissance or liberation, for others a national catastrophe. Among those who discuss or celebrate it most, views vary greatly. Every May for the last forty years, numerous articles have analyzed and commented on the movement. Several books devoted entirely to the subject and hundreds touching on it have been published in Chinese. The literature on the subject is massive, yet most of it offers more polemic than factual accounts. Most Westerners possess but fragmentary and inaccurate information on the subject. For these reasons, preparation of this volume recounting the events of the movement and examining in detail its currents and effects has seemed to me worthwhile.