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What Has This Done to China?
In the early twentieth century, china's young intellectuals looked at their own past and said what has this given us? The may fourth movement was named after a student demonstration that took place just outside a forbidden city. And in contrast with other asian nationalist societies af that time, such as, you know, the actions of nerand gande in india or the magi restoration in japan. It would have been running round in the mind of mao who was fiercely, fiercely opposed to that tradition. When you get to the culture revolution, 50 years later, having that sense that it hadn't gone quite far enough in removing every single aspect of it might have felt like the unfinished