May Fourth Movement
Walk through CPC's history • 2m 0s
May 4, 1919, is a significant date in Chinese history. It’s the day a student protest took place in Beijing and set off what came to be known as the May Fourth Movement.
Zhou Lingzhao, a well-known Chinese artist, created a famous oil painting in 1951 entitled “May 4th Movement”, depicting that memorable event.
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1st National Congress of the CPC
In 1921, a meeting, initially held in Shanghai and then transferred to a boat on Nanhu Lake (around 60 miles from Shanghai), marked the founding of the Communist Party of China.
See how this event was memorialized in art.
