Article: A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World.(Book Review)

A Bitter Revolution China's Struggle with the Modern World

Rana Mitter

Oxford University Press 357 pp. 18.99 [pounds sterling] ISBN: 0-19-280341-7.

ON MAY 4TH, 1919, thousands of students gathered in Beijing to protest against the decision of the Versailles Peace Conference to transfer Germany's Chinese concessions to Japan. The students beat one pro-Japanese official and attacked the home of another. Yet the demonstration could hardly be called bloody.

Almost from the start, May Fourth was celebrated as the moment when China stood up. It was seen as a culmination of the New Culture Movement that began in 1915, a repudiation of ...

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