The Unfinished May Fourth Movement: Historical Scenes and Ideological Dialogues

"They were fighting against this formation of nothingness with their bare hands in a dense fog and on the edge."

Standing on the extension line of the May Fourth Movement, find the answer to the proposition of our times

"I don't want the originally lively May Fourth movement to be reduced to an exciting, concise slogan."

The entire twentieth century was the era of May Fourth.

There have been many "critical moments" in human history, and their huge radiation power has had a decisive impact on future generations. For example, what the French Revolution was to the French, what May Fourth was to the Chinese. In twentieth-century China, in terms of ideology and culture, the May Fourth Movement is the most deserving of sustained and serious dialogue. It can even be said that, looking back on the history of China for the past one thousand years, the most creative ideological and cultural movement has to be the May Fourth movement.

Chen Pingyuan, Chair Professor of Liberal Arts at Peking University, has compiled nearly 25 years of classic articles on the May Fourth Movement into this polemical collection. As the most vigorous period of modern Chinese thought, the May Fourth Movement in his writings is no longer monolithic, but full of dynamics and complexity, admirable, lovely, lamentable, and pity. In addition to bringing us into contact with rich and vivid historical scenes, he particularly emphasized the role of the May Fourth Movement as "the whetstone of thought": allowing the thoughts of the May Fourth generation to sharpen the thinking of contemporary people.

The "May Fourth movement in history" is muddy, noisy, and full of vitality. The "May Fourth movement in thought" is rich, diverse, vibrant, and full of meaning. This is what makes May Fourth continue to be fascinating.

The new cultural people at that time brought up almost every interesting topic.

But every problem has not been fully explained, and it has blossomed everywhere, but it is difficult to bear fruit.

You must wait for the latecomers to catch up, choose one of the wild flowers everywhere, and pick it off.

Plug it in your head and move on.