May 4th to June 4th: Youth and Protest in Modern China


Speaker	Dr. Thomas Gold
Summary	Dr. Tom Gold opens the 2015 Teachers Workshop discussing the role of Chinese youth in shaping the past, present and future of China. In highlighting the social and political contexts behind the May 4th and June 4th student-led movements, Dr. Gold shows how intellectual ferment, the Confucian ideal of “remonstrance”, student elitism, and the century of China’s humiliation all contributed to the events that shaped China’s path into and out of the 20th century.
Keywords	student protest, China’s humiliation
Publish Date	August 4, 2015
Source	Speech given at 1990 Institute Teachers Workshop on “Modern China’s Through the Lens of Social Change and Reform”, August 3-4, 2015, at San Mateo County Office of Education, Redwood City, CA.
Speaker Bio	Thomas Gold Bio