The John Batchelor Show

Friday 4 May 2018

Air Date: 
May 04, 2018

Photo: The May Fourth Movement (Mainland Chinese: 五四运动; pinyin: Wǔsì Yùndòng) was an anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement growing out of student participants in Beijing on 4 May 1919, protesting against the Chinese government's weak response to the Treaty of Versailles, especially allowing Japan to receive territories in Shandong which had been surrendered by Germany after the Siege of Tsingtao. These demonstrations sparked national protests and marked the upsurge of Chinese nationalism, a shift towards political mobilization and away from cultural activities, and a move towards a populist base rather than intellectual elites. Many political and social leaders of the next decades emerged at this time.  T
The term "May Fourth Movement" in a broader sense often refers to the period during 1915–1921, more often called the New Culture Movement.
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* The Chinese delegation to the Versailles conference was led by Lou Tseng-Tsiang, accompanied by Wellington Koo** [pron: gu] and Tsao Ru-lin. Before the Western powers, Koo demanded that Germany's concessions on Shandong be returned to China. He further called for an end to imperialist institutions such as extraterritoriality, legation guards, and foreign lease holds. Despite American support and the ostensible spirit of self-determination, the Western powers refused his claims, transferring the German concessions to Japan instead. This sparked widespread student protests in China on 4 May, later known as the May Fourth Movement, eventually pressuring the government into refusing to sign the Treaty of Versailles. Thus the Chinese delegation at the Paris Peace Conference was the only one not to sign the treaty at the signing ceremony.
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** Wellington Koo was asked, many years later, how he had managed to live to the age of ninety-seven and maintain such equanimity.  Ambassador Koo explained: “There’s not much that one can control in life, but I could control aspects of dining.  I always have chewed each mouthful of food twenty times before swallowing, and I attribute a great deal of my good health to that fact.” (Your editor was privileged to meet Ambassador Koo.)
 
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
 
Hour One
Friday 4 May 2018 / Hour 1, Block A:  The Vicksburg Campaign: Strategy, Battles and Key Figures, by Kevin Dougherty
Friday 4 May 2018 / Hour 1, Block B: The Vicksburg Campaign: Strategy, Battles and Key Figures,
Friday 4 May 2018 / Hour 1, Block C: The Kissing Sailor: The Mystery Behind the Photo that Ended World War II,  by Lawrence Verria and George Galdorisi
Friday 4 May 2018 / Hour 1, Block D:  The Kissing Sailor: The Mystery Behind the Photo that Ended World War II,  by Lawrence Verria and George Galdorisi
 
Hour Two
Friday 4 May 2018 / Hour 2, Block A:  Turning the Tide: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic, by Ed Offley
Friday 4 May 2018 / Hour 2, Block B:  Turning the Tide: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic, by Ed Offley
Friday 4 May 2018 / Hour 2, Block C:  Turning the Tide: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic, by Ed Offley
Friday 4 May 2018 / Hour 2, Block D: Turning the Tide: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic, by Ed Offley
 
Hour Three
Friday 4 May 2018 / Hour 3, Block A:  1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, by Charles C. Mann
Friday 4 May 2018 / Hour 3, Block B:  1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, by Charles C. Mann
Friday 4 May 2018 / Hour 3, Block C:  1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, by Charles C. Mann
Friday 4 May 2018 / Hour 3, Block D:  1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, by Charles C. Mann
 
Hour Four
Friday 4 May 2018 / Hour 4, Block A:  Coolidge, by Amity Shlaes
Friday 4 May 2018 / Hour 4, Block B:  Coolidge, by Amity Shlaes
Friday 4 May 2018 / Hour 4, Block C:  Coolidge, by Amity Shlaes
Friday 4 May 2018 / Hour 4, Block D:  Coolidge, by Amity Shlaes
 
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