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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.
List of contents
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 Cultural Revolution,
Ting Jiang and Xiansheng Tian
Chapter 11: The "April 5 Tiananmen Square Incident" and Deng's Return
Xiaoxiao Li
Chapter 12: Mandate for Justice: College Students and the Tiananmen Demonstration
Qiang Fang
About the author
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.
Summary
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.