Lu Zongyu5 May 1919
Chinese representatives in Paris refuse to sign on the peace Treaty, the May 4th Movement win the initial victory, more symbolic than anything else, Japan retains the Shandong Peninsula and Pacific Islands won in World War I
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Chinese representatives in Paris refuse to sign on the peace Treaty, the May 4th Movement win the initial victory, more symbolic than anything else, Japan retains the Shandong Peninsula and Pacific Islands won in World War I
Students join in a protest in the Tiananmen Square of Beijing against the European powers decision to grant German-controlled Shandong to Japan, and thus create a new nationalist Chinese movement ("May 4th movement")
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