Awakening Age
During a turbulent time from 1915 to 1921, Chen Du Xiu and Li Da Zhao, along with other like-minded individuals, founded the Magazine La Jeunesse that started the New Culture Movement. The magazine promoted science and democracy and revolutionized the thinking of the masses and encouraged them to fight against imperialism that has been ingrained in everyone. The series follows a colorful cast with various well-known authors, politicians, and revolutionists as they all try in their own way to save their country.
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Seasons & Episodes
1. Li Dazhao's impassioned speech to save the country
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2. Chen Duxiu finally arrives in Shanghai, teased by his son, but rejoices instead
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3. Chen Duxiu went so far as to sell his words to raise money Li Dazhao was expelled and determined to revolutionize
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4. Li Dazhao pawned his clothes for the poor people Cai Yuanpei became the president of Peking University with the ambition to create a new style
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5. Cai Yuanpei wanted to invite Chen Duxiu to teach at Peking University Chen Duxiu could not leave the new youth newspaper and refused twice
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6. Li Dazhao and Chen Duxiu finally meet in Beijing, but Chen Duxiu's appointment at Peking University is controversial
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7. Huang Kan's misbehavior and words displease students
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8. The royalist forces on campus remain strong, and the imperial system is restored again when the braid army enters the city
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9. BYU reform gains support
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10. Extended year obsession with anarchism
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11. Koo Hongming's academic attainments were indeed profound, and Li Dazhao began to reflect on capital to save the country
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12. The dismissal of foreign professors at Peking University has led to a diplomatic controversy, and the university's senate is unanimous in defending national sovereignty.
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13. The British government was pressured to settle the matter, and Lu Xun joined the new youth as a tiger.
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14. Lu Xun's diary of a madman written with a pen
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15. Mao Zedong formally established the New People's Association, and the Madman's Diary was a hit when it was released.
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16. The restorationists even openly slandered Chen Duxiu, and the youth rehearsed a play to promote the new culture.
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17. Mao Zedong came to Peking University to observe and became Li Dazhao's assistant
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18. Mao Zedong receives new ideas of communism Curmudgeons make trouble in front of Chen Duxiu's house
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19. Germany's defeat and the victory of the Allies, China will attend the Paris Peace Conference
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20. Mao went to the grassroots to reach out to the working class in Yannian's experiment with anarchism
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21. The establishment of the work-study mutual aid society but the problems continue to weak countries without diplomatic petition was returned
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22. Mutual aid societies were slandered and defamed, and Peking University was attacked by the group
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23. Cai Yuanpei was lectured and questioned, and Peking University launched a desperate counterattack
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24. Zhang Fengzai's nasty deeds were exposed and he was finally fired Japan offered to take over all rights and interests in Shandong Peninsula
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25. Work-Study Mutual Aid Society officially closed its experiment and failed Mao thanked the people for their help and returned to Hunan
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26. The Paris Peace Conference assigned Shandong rights to Japan, and the delegation's good offices were unsuccessful in rejecting the agreement.
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27. The Treaty of Paris disgraced the rights of the people and aroused public anger.
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28. Universities unite to strike classes Arrested students finally released
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29. Cai Yuanpei was forced to leave to protect the arrested students Beijing universities resigned to strike in solidarity with Peking University
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30. The influence of the May Fourth Movement spread throughout the country, and Chen Duxiu and Hu Shih had major disagreements.
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31. Chen Yannian was beaten unconscious at a street rally, but Wu Bingxiang designed an attempt to isolate Chen Duxiu
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32. Yannian uses a trick to get Zhang Fengzai to confess his identity as a spy. The reactionary government sends troops to violently suppress the student movement.
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33. Students were forcibly detained school turned into a prison Chen family's undying desire to save the country father and son finally reconciled
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34. The student movement won a big victory and the government was forced to dismiss Cao Zhanglu
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35. Chen Duxiu was arrested and imprisoned, and Li Dazhao was forced to leave Beijing.
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36. China refuses to sign the Paris Peace Treaty. The May Fourth Movement achieves full victory.
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37. Cai Yuanpei returns to Peking University and Chen Duxiu is finally released from prison
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38. Chen Duxiu resigned from Peking University and New Youth finally resumed publication
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39. Yannian Qiaonian went to France to study and eventually became a revolutionary martyr Chen Duxiu went to the south with the intention of organizing Southwest University
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40. Chen Duxiu returned to Shanghai to avoid the storm, and Chen and Li met on the road to build the party.
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41. Mao Zedong met Li Ta-Chao in Beijing and was inspired by the arrival of the Communist International's Vyshinsky in China to help build the Party
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42. Chen Duxiu formally established the Communist Party and Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai firmly believed in it
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43. The Communist Party of China was formally established and the revolutionary martyrs pledged to defend their faith to the death
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