Title:   China's First "Cultural Revolution":  The May Fourth Movement and the First United Front (1915-1928)

Speaker:   Dr. Howard Spendelow

Topic/Issues:  

1. Context of the "warlord period" (1916-1928)
2. New Culture Movement
3. The Shandong Leasehold and Wilsonian rhetoric
4. Early appeal of Communism
5. Sun Yatsen's dangerous deal: the First United Front
6. Chiang Kai-shek and the Northern Expedition

Resources:

1. China's Revolutionary Century, part 4

Readings:

1. Schwartz, Benjamin I.  Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao (Harvard UP, 1951)
2. Levine, Steven I. and Alexander V. Pantsov.  Mao: The Real Story (Simon & Schuster, 2012)
3. Chou Tse-tsung [Zhou Cezong], The May Fourth Movement and Intellectual Revolution in Modern China (Harvard UP, 1960)
4. Manela, Erez.  The Wilsonian Moment:  Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism (Oxford, 2007)

Goals:

1. [tbd]