HIEA 2031 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: May Fourth Movement, Xinhai Revolution, New Youth

• School: University of Virginia
• Department: History-East Asian History
• Course: HIEA 2031
• Professor: Bradley Reed

Document Summary

The may fourth era and the search for. Many chinese in the early 20th century began to believe that the reform movement of the republic was doomed to fall o o. Refers the new culture movement as well as anti-japenese product that broke out in beijing on may 4th 19__ o. With failure of the 1911 revolution and the fact that confuctianism was becoming more and more unpopular, many students began treating confucianism as a dated and pointless method of philosophy o. Marks the date when china began to break away from tradition and move toward modernity. So significant to the chinese people that it is celebrated both in. Soon conf. became seen more and more like a dated ideology and less like a universal way of life that people were seeing. Feelings of liberation began to make the ind.