The Chinese Enlightenment: The May Fourth Movement and Its Participants.
This paper will analyze the movement as an attempt made by a new generation of Chinese intellectuals to modernize the Chinese mind and thereby modernize the Chinese nation. This essay can only draw a reductionist sketch of very complex historical situations and it will largely focus on the participants of the movement and some of the key items on its agenda. 8.5 pgs. 18 f/c. 7b.
