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In my middle school days, May Fourth Movement was mostly branded as a patriotic movement against foreign incursion, but the anti-West sentiment was played down. My guess is partly due to Taiwan's naturally aligned to the West to deter the CCP, and the West did pressure Japan in returning some land to China after WW1. I didn't even know about how the CCP had a different interpretation on May Fourth until I started reading stuff coming out of the Mainland.
Also our curriculum was more focus on the cultural developments such as ditching Classical Chinese and stories of famous writers that made modern Mandarin the way it is.
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In my middle school days, May Fourth Movement was mostly branded as a patriotic movement against foreign incursion, but the anti-West sentiment was played down. My guess is partly due to Taiwan's naturally aligned to the West to deter the CCP, and the West did pressure Japan in returning some land to China after WW1. I didn't even know about how the CCP had a different interpretation on May Fourth until I started reading stuff coming out of the Mainland.
Also our curriculum was more focus on the cultural developments such as ditching Classical Chinese and stories of famous writers that made modern Mandarin the way it is.
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