num_pages: 409
description: It is widely accepted, both inside China and in the West, that contemporary Chinese history begins with the May Fourth Movement. Vera Schwarcz's imaginative new study provides China scholars and historians with an analysis of what makes that event a turning point in the intellectual, spiritual, cultural and political life of twentieth-century China.
language: English
title: The Chinese Enlightenment: Intellectuals and the Legacy of the May Fourth Movement of 1919 (Volume 27)
publisher: University of California Press