After the outbreak of the May Fourth Movement, the American media carried out continuous reports, providing a Western perspective on understanding the movement and important historical records of the US attitude towards the May Fourth Movement at that time. These reports not only revealed the process of this movement in detail but also, particularly important, they foresaw China ushering in a new era. As the American media and Americans in China clearly expressed their support for China on the Shandong issue, Japan began to spread rumors that the movement was directed by the United States behind the scenes, trying to transfer the responsibility for the anger of the Chinese people caused by its aggressive actions to the Americans. The root […]

A database based on A Survey Report of Chinese Industry by Liu Dajun and other statistics in 1930s has been constructed as the main source for this research. This database reveals that the geographic industrial distribution of China in 1933 demonstrated a trend “contiguous distribution in the east, scattered distribution in the west”. This trend was caused by the distinguishes of the eastern and western region in natural resources, transportation conditions and connections with external markets. Without support form a powerful state, the industrialization of modern China faced many obstacles, such as the shortage of market, spatial gap between the eastern region and the western region, vicious competition among different regions and the mismatch of natural resources and investment and […]