HIST 106g Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: New Culture Movement, Peking University, Industrial Revolution
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Hist106 lecture 03 nov 2011, 08 nov 2011 and 10 nov 2011. Republican period 1911 1949: emergence of a new kind of radical politics. New culture movement (c. 1915 1925: questioning of chinese tradition, movement to write in the vernacular, mr. democracy and mr. science, anarchism and socialism. May 4th incident (1919) and movement: end of wwi china entered wwi on the allies side and contributed labor (factories and trenches, sent representatives to the negotiation of the tov. It was discovered during the negotiations that they had a secret agreement that. Ger(cid:373)a(cid:374)y"s (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)essions in china will be given to japan instead of being given back to. China (germany got the concession from china in the past: may 4th student demonstration in beijing (peking university) against the tov. May 30th incident, 1925: chinese workers strike against japanese factories. Japanese factories called police british police opened fire. Hugh jewish population ended up in shanghai in 1930s can go there w/o a passport.
