May Fourth movement in Beijing
May 4, 1919
Chinese students marched on Tiananmen when news broke that Versailles had handed former German concessions in Shandong to Japan rather than returning them to China. The protests swelled into a nationwide rejection of traditional culture and foreign submission, reshaping Chinese intellectual life for a generation. Among the young men who were listening was a quiet librarian named Mao Zedong.
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