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Turning point · China in Revolution, 1911–1949
May Fourth
4 May 1919 — Three thousand students march on the Legation Quarter against the Shandong clause of Versailles; strikes and boycotts spread to two hundred cities. Out of the movement come a new vernacular literature, a generation of radicalized students — and, two years later, a communist party.
This is one scene of Chapter 3 — Warlords and May Fourth in China in Revolution, 1911–1949.
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