
The 29th day of March 1911, the Guangzhou Uprising was a tragic but significant event in modern China: it triggered the overturn of the tattered Qin Dynasty and founded the Republic of China. But the foundation of the republic "inherited" all kinds of demerits from Qin and old society, and the new country was bound to a common colony to all Western powers and Japan. The May Fourth Movement of 1919 enlightened the intellectuals and the youths to search for a new way to save China from the bitter sea: nationalism. communism, anarchism, and so on. Finally, they found the way.