A CHINESE MAN READS MATERIALS OF MAY FOURTH MOVEMENT IN BEIJING, 1999-05-03 (photo)

A Chinese man reads material concerning May Fouth Movement posted outside the Red Mansion, the original campus of the hundred-year-old Peking University, on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the movement, May 3. The May Fourth Movement, considered a watershed in contemporary Chinese history, was started by several thousand students from the Peking University demanding that the sovereinty of Shandong peninsula be upheld and returned to China after the allies at the Paris Peace Conference accepted Japan's demands for the transfer of all previous German interests in Shandong to them following the end of World War I. The Chinese characters read "Long live May Fourth Movement Spirit". ASW/CC