A Century of Student Movements in China: The Mountain Movers, 1919-2019

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In 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. Contents Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration List of Abbreviations Introduction: The May Fourth Centenary, 1919–2019 Part I. Modernity Versus Tradition: New Cultural Movements 1. Assessing Li Dazhao’s Role in the Shaping of the New Cultural Movement 2. Advancing Nationalism with Feminism: Tianjin Women Students during the May Fourth Era 3. Modern Schools and the Students Radicalization in the 1910s Part II. Nationalism and State-Building: New Forces 4. Making the First Generation of New Citizens: Returned Students and Student Movements in the Republican Era 5. “Student Regiments” from Guangxi: The Youth Power in China’s War against Japan, 1936–1941 6. Student Movement and the End of the Civil War in the Chongqing Region Part III. People’s Republic and Revolution 7. New May Fourth Movement in Mao’s China: The May Nineteenth Movement in Peking University, 1957 8. Returned Students and Development of China’s Nuclear and Space Programs 9. Education Policy and the Pre-Cultural Revolution Shangshan Xiaxiang, 1962–1966 Part IV. Continuing Revolution and Reform 10. Mao’s Red Guards: Student Movement in the Cultural Revolution 11. The “April 5 Tiananmen Square Incident” and Deng Xiaoping’s Return 12. Mandate for Justice: Chinese College Students and the Tiananmen Demonstration Conclusion: Who Move the Mountain in the Twenty-First-Century China? Selected Bibliography Index About the Contributors