Modern China by Wang Ke-wen; Staff Crsn;

Author:Wang, Ke-wen; Staff, Crsn;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Routledge

References

Chow, Tse-tsung. The May Fourth Movement: Intellectual Revolution in Modern China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960.

Schwarcz, Vera. The Chinese Enlightenment. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

Schwartz, Benjamin I., ed. Reflections on the May Fourth Movement. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972.

May Thirtieth Movement

On May 30, 1925, police under the command of a British officer in the international settlement of Shanghai fired on a crowd of demonstrators that had met in Nanking Road to protest the treatment of Chinese workers in Japanese-owned textile mills in the city. Eleven people were killed, and more than twenty others wounded. Within forty-eight hours, large parts of Shanghai were gripped by a general strike aimed chiefly at the British and the Japanese. Under the leadership of local Communists, such as Li Lisan, Qu Qiubai, and Liu Shaoqi, a General Labor Union was formed, which in turn became the central force in a Federation of Workers, Merchants, and Students that was to become the central coordinating force for the strike. Despite efforts by the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce to moderate the radical demands of the strikers, and the efforts of foreign and Chinese diplomats to settle the affair, it was not until the late autumn of 1925 that the city returned to something like its normal condition.

An anti-imperialist demonstrator in Beijing during the May Thirtieth movement, 1925. (Courtesy of Nationalist Party Archives.)

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