May Fourth Movement

When

4 May 1919

Kind

Protest

Coordinates

39.91° N, 116.43° E

Description

Chinese cultural and political movement beginning with protests on 4 May 1919 in Beijing

1919 Chinese cultural political movement

The May Fourth Movement was a Chinese cultural and anti-imperialist political movement which grew out of student protests in Beijing on May 4, 1919. Students gathered in front of Tiananmen to protest the Chinese government's weak response to the Treaty of Versailles decision to allow the Empire of Japan to retain territories in Shandong that had been surrendered by the German Empire after the Siege of Tsingtao in 191…

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• Wikidata: riots, protests, strikes and revoltsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The May Fourth Movement erupts in China as a result of the decision at the Paris Peace Conference to transfer former German concessions in Jiaozhou Bay to…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “mouvement du 4 mai”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “En Pekín, (China), una manifestación nacionalista contra la transferencia de los intereses alemanes a Japón señaló una nueva etapa de desarrollo en la…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “حركة الرابع من مايو تعارض المستعمرين الأجانب في الصين”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “五四運動爆發，下午1時許北京大學、高等師範、政法專門、中國大學、朝陽大學、工業專門、農業專門、醫學專門、滙文大學、警官學校、鐵路管理學校、稅務學校”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “中華民国で五・四運動”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page