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May Fourth Movement
The May Fourth Movement, which began in Beijing on May 4, 1919, was a patriotic campaign launched by students and supported by workers, merchants, and other working class citizens from various provinces. They used demonstrations, petitions, strikes, and violent actions to protest against the government. Chinese historians consider this movement the watershed separating China’s pre-modern and modern eras.