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Glossary
Beijing | = | 北京 |
Cai Yuanpei | = | 蔡元培 |
Chen Yi’ai | = | 陈以爱 |
Chow Tse-tsung (Zhou Cezong) | = | 周策纵 |
Fu Sinian | = | 傅斯年 |
Guangzhou | = | 广州 |
Hangzhou | = | 杭州 |
Hu Shi | = | 胡适 |
juben | = | 剧本 |
Li Dazhao | = | 李大钊 |
Li Shu | = | 黎澍 |
Li Zehou | = | 李泽厚 |
Wang Qisheng | = | 王奇生 |
Wu Zhihui | = | 吴稚晖 |
wutai | = | 舞台 |
Wuhan | = | 武汉 |
Xin Qingnian | = | 《新青年》 |
yi fugu wei jiefang | = | 以复古为解放 |
Notes
1 Chow, The May Fourth Movement; and Li Zehou, Zhongguo xiandai sixiang shi lun.
2 Yeh, Provincial Passages.
3 Li Shu, “Wusi yundong,” 16.
4 Wasserstrom, “Zhengque de kangyi celue shicong nali laide?”; Esherick and Wasserstrom, “Acting Out Democracy.”
5 On May 7, 1915, the Japanese government issued an ultimatum to the Beijing government demanding that China accept without modification the provisions on Fujian in the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth of the Twenty-One Demands. On May 9, the Beijing government accepted all the demands in the Japanese ultimatum and eventually signed this Sino-Japanese treaty on May 25, 1915.
6 Wang Qisheng, “Rocks Rolling Downhill.”
7 Hu Shi, “Si lieshi zhongshang,”138.
8 Chen Yi’ai, “Wusi yundong chuqi”; and Chen Yi’ai, “Wusi qianhou de Cai Yuanpei,” 336–361. Her monograph on the May Fourth Movement in Shanghai is about to be published.
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Jun QU
QU Jun is now a professor in the History Department at East China Normal University. His research focuses on modern Chinese intellectual and cultural history. His recent publications include Tianxia wei xueshuo lie: Qingmo minchu de sixiang geming yu wenhua yundong (The World was Fragmented by Scholarship: Intellectual Revolution and the Cultural Movement in the Late Qing and Early Republic) (Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press, 2017).