Lexington Books
Pages: 342
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Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-7936-0916-8 • Hardback • December 2019 • $121.00 • (£93.00)
978-1-7936-0917-5 • eBook • December 2019 • $115.00 • (£88.00)
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.
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
This stimulating collection of well-researched studies by Chinese historians in the United States significantly deepens our understanding of the impact and influence of Chinese student movements on Chinese history over the past century. It helps to reconceptualize our approach, expand our geographic focus beyond Shanghai and Beijing, and analyze the role of returned students in stimulating social movements. A Century of Student Movements in China: The Mountain Movers, 1919–2019 destroys the Communist Party of China’s self-serving myth that it was the uncontested leader of progressive student movements since the seminal May Fourth Movement.
— Steven I. Levine, University of Montana
Drawing on newly available materials and the knowledge of seasoned Chinese scholars with personal experiences of engagement in the many influential student actions of China’s past one hundred years, A Century of Student Movements in China: The Mountain Movers, 1919–2019 provides both new empirical material on key events and fresh insights into the tumultuous and contested trajectory of Chinese social and political history from 1919 to the present.
— Teresa Wright, California State University at Long Beach
In dealing with a very important topic, the students’ movement in China in the twentieth century, the editors have successfully put together a group of coherent essays written by very competent authors.
— Shiping Hua, University of Louisville