Century of Student Movements in China

Xiaobing Li is professor and chair of the Department of History and Geography and the director of the Western Pacific Institute at the University of Central Oklahoma.Qiang Fang is professor of East Asian history at the University of Minnesota Duluth.

• Chapter 1: Assessing Li Dazhao’s Role in the Shaping of the New Cultural Movement,Patrick Fuliang ShanChapter 2: Advancing Nationalism with Feminism: Tianjin Women Students during the May Fourth Era, Yi SunChapter 3: Modern Schools and the Students Radicalization in the 1910s, Liyan LiuChapter 4: Making the First Generation of New Citizens: Returned Students and Student Movements in the Republican Era, Hongshan LiChapter 5:” “Student Regiments” from Guangxi: the Youth Power in China’s War against Japan, 1936-1941, Pingchao ZhuChapter 6: Student Movement and the End of the Civil War in the Chongqing Region, Danke LiChapter 7: New May Fourth Movement in Mao’s China: The May 19th Movement in Peking University, 1957, Xiaojia HouChapter 8: Returned Students and Development of China’s Nuclear and Space Programs, Xiaobing LiChapter 9: Education Policy and the Pre-Cultural Revolution Shangshan Xiaxiang, 1962-1966,Peng DengChapter 10: Mao’s Red Guards: Student Movement in the Cultura

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.