Century of Student Movements in China

The book looks through five generations of Chinese students since the May Fourth Movement in 1919, explains how their ideas, actions, and impact ran like a thread through many governments and institutions that have shaped modern China, and indicates where China came from and what the country became.

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 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 Cultura