In a more limited sense, the May Fourth Movement (wusi yundong) signifies the patriotic student protests in 1919, which culminated in the May Fourth Incident (wusi shijian). In a wider sense it refers to the intellectual-cultural reform movement of 1917 to 1921, the so-called New Culture Movement. 1917 marks the year when a group of young intellectuals came together at Beijing University who, with their agenda of enlightenment, almost completely broke …