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Book SynopsisIn this book the authors offer their unique perspectives on the important roles Chinese students and intellectuals played in the shaping of the twentieth-century China. Their answers to these pivotal questions explore new nationalistic spirit, modern world-views, and willingness of self-sacrifice, which had attributed to the spontaneous actions of the students as a “New Culture” emerged during the May Fourth Movement. These articles show how China nurtured these spontaneous student movements, even though the Nationalist Party in the Republic of China and the Communist Party in the People’s Republic had exerted tight control over schools. Both governments established organizations as well as operations among students that effectively turned some of the student movements into a political instrument by the parties for their own agenda.
Trade ReviewIn dealing with a very important topic, the students’ movement in China in the twentieth century, the editors have successfully put together a group of coherent essays written by very competent authors. -- Shiping Hua, University of Louisville
This stimulating collection of well-researched studies by Chinese historians in the United States significantly deepens our understanding of the impact and influence of Chinese student movements on Chinese history over the past century. It helps to reconceptualize our approach, expand our geographic focus beyond Shanghai and Beijing, and analyze the role of returned students in stimulating social movements. A Century of Student Movements in China: The Mountain Movers, 1919–2019 destroys the Communist Party of China’s self-serving myth that it was the uncontested leader of progressive student movements since the seminal May Fourth Movement. -- Steven I. Levine, University of Montana
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Assessing Li Dazhao’s Role in the Shaping of the New Cultural Movement, Patrick Fuliang Shan Chapter 2: Advancing Nationalism with Feminism: Tianjin Women Students during the May Fourth Era, Yi Sun Chapter 3: Modern Schools and the Students Radicalization in the 1910s, Liyan Liu Chapter 4: Making the First Generation of New Citizens: Returned Students and Student Movements in the Republican Era, Hongshan Li Chapter 5:” “Student Regiments” from Guangxi: the Youth Power in China’s War against Japan, 1936-1941, Pingchao Zhu Chapter 6: Student Movement and the End of the Civil War in the Chongqing Region, Danke Li Chapter 7: New May Fourth Movement in Mao’s China: The May 19th Movement in Peking University, 1957, Xiaojia Hou Chapter 8: Returned Students and Development of China’s Nuclear and Space Programs, Xiaobing Li Chapter 9: Education Policy and the Pre-Cultural Revolution Shangshan Xiaxiang, 1962-1966, Peng Deng Chapter 10: Mao’s Red Guards: Student Movement in the Cultural Revolution, Ting Jiang and Xiansheng Tian Chapter 11: The “April 5 Tiananmen Square Incident” and Deng’s Return Xiaoxiao Li Chapter 12: Mandate for Justice: College Students and the Tiananmen Demonstration Qiang Fang
