A Century of Student Movements in China

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This stimulating collection of well-researched studies by Chinese historians in the United States significantly deepens our understanding of the impact and influence of Chinese student movements on Chinese history over the past century. It helps to reconceptualize our approach, expand our geographic focus beyond Shanghai and Beijing, and analyze the role of returned students in stimulating social movements. A Century of Student Movements in China: The Mountain Movers, 1919-2019 destroys the Communist Party of China's self-serving myth that it was the uncontested leader of progressive student movements since the seminal May Fourth Movement. -- Steven I. Levine, University of Montana Drawing on newly available materials and the knowledge of seasoned Chinese scholars with personal experiences of engagement in the many influential student actions of China's past one hundred years, A Century of Student Movements in China: The Mountain Movers, 1919-2019 provides both new empirical material on key events and fresh insights into the tumultuous and contested trajectory of Chinese social and political history from 1919 to the present. -- Teresa Wright, California State University at Long Beach In dealing with a very important topic, the students' movement in China in the twentieth century, the editors have successfully put together a group of coherent essays written by very competent authors. -- Shiping Hua, University of Louisville