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May Fourth Movement (1919)

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4 May 1919 — Three thousand students march on the Legation Quarter to protest the Shandong clause of Versailles. Strikes and boycotts spread to two hundred cities. The movement helps produce a new vernacular literature and a generation of radicalized students; two years later, a communist party follows.

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Turning point
Chapter
Warlord Era and May Fourth Movement (chapter 3 of Chinese Revolution)
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China in Revolution, 1911–1949
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