Dichotomous Thinking and Culture of Destruction: Revisiting Youth Activism in China during the May Fourth Period

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Dichotomous Thinking and Culture of Destruction: Revisiting Youth Activism in China during the May Fourth Period

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Page Range:: 39–51

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401201506_006

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The importance of student activism in China during the May Fourth period (1915–1919) cannot be stressed too much in Chinese history, as it marked a turning point for the country and established the social norms and the logic of thinking for a Socialist China. The New Culture and the May Fourth Movements are often officially viewed as patriotic campaigns, which succeeded in promoting ideas of science and democracy. Yet, the May Fourth dream ofa strong and democratic country was never fulfilled in the hegemonic politics of modem China. This study revisits the so-called success of the movements and their role as the prelude to the Communist China, and examines whether seeds of evilness were already sowed in the good will of students in the May Fourth period.

Students’ efforts to rescue China during the May Fourth period failed to avoid the simplicity and arbitrariness of binary thinking and the culture of destruction. Their pursuit of democracy eventually evolved into the cultural and political hegemony of Communism in China. Lessons should be learnt from this transformation of good will into evil outcome.

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Minding Evil

Explorations of Human Iniquity

丛编： At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, 卷： 23

ISBN:: 9789401201506

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 01 Jan 2005

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