New Culture Movement
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The New Culture Movement (traditional Chinese: 新文化運動; simplified Chinese: 新文化运动; pinyin: xīn wén huà yùn dòng) refers to the period between 1917 and 1923 in China, which was marked by student and intellectual ferment and protests against the warlord government. It culminated in the May Fourth Movement of 1919.
[edit] History
The New Culture Movement was inaugurated by the creation of the New Youth journal, established in 1915 by Peking University professor Chen Duxiu.[1] Responding to the collapse of the Qing Dynasty and the failures of the new government of the Republic of China, the New Culture Movement was a movement of intellectuals blaming the cultural heritage of China for its many wrongs. This would also be the basis for the more widespread and politically-focused May Fourth Movement.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Furth, Charlotte (1983). "Intellectual change: from the Reform movement to the May Fourth movement, 1895-1920", in John K. Fairbank: Republican China 1912-1949, Part 1, The Cambridge History of China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 322-405. ISBN 9780521235419.
- ^ Schwartz, Benjamin (1983). "Themes in Intellectual History: May Fourth and After", in John K. Fairbank: Republican China 1912-1949, Part 1, The Cambridge History of China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 406-451. ISBN 9780521235419.
