HIST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: May Fourth Movement, Kuomintang, New Culture Movement
Document Summary
The long march: may fourth movement, over 3,000 university students rally in beijing, sparking protests across the country, tapped into progressivism of new culture movement. Up with mr. sai and mr. de! : turning point, china increasingly split after 1919, no central unifying force. Communists and nationalists form temporary coalition against common threat of. Mao courts ussr, adheres to stalinist 5-year plan program. Stalin is later denounced as a war criminal by his successor, nikita khrushchev. Mao reveres himself as true leader of world communism: decline of nationalist china. Cpc membership: 50k in 1937; 800k in 1940; Pla membership also grows from 10k to over 1 million. The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack. People"s republic of china officially proclaimed in beijing, october 1949. The chinese people, comprising one quarter of humanity, have now stood up ours will no longer be a nation subject to insult and humiliation.
