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THE DAY IN HISTORY · MAY 4
May 4 in history
1919 — 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.
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