About this season
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.
Episodes (43)
1. Li Dazhao's impassioned speech to save the country
Aired 1 February 2021 • 45 min
2. Chen Duxiu finally arrives in Shanghai, teased by his son, but rejoices instead
Aired 1 February 2021 • 45 min
3. Chen Duxiu went so far as to sell his words to raise money Li Dazhao was expelled and determined to revolutionize
Aired 2 February 2021 • 45 min
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
Aired 2 February 2021 • 45 min
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
Aired 3 February 2021 • 45 min
6. Li Dazhao and Chen Duxiu finally meet in Beijing, but Chen Duxiu's appointment at Peking University is controversial
Aired 5 February 2021 • 45 min
7. Huang Kan's misbehavior and words displease students
Aired 8 February 2021 • 45 min
8. The royalist forces on campus remain strong, and the imperial system is restored again when the braid army enters the city
Aired 8 February 2021 • 45 min
9. BYU reform gains support
Aired 9 February 2021 • 45 min
10. Extended year obsession with anarchism
Aired 9 February 2021 • 45 min
11. Koo Hongming's academic attainments were indeed profound, and Li Dazhao began to reflect on capital to save the country
Aired 10 February 2021 • 45 min
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.
Aired 10 February 2021 • 45 min
13. The British government was pressured to settle the matter, and Lu Xun joined the new youth as a tiger.
Aired 15 February 2021 • 45 min
14. Lu Xun's diary of a madman written with a pen
Aired 15 February 2021 • 45 min
15. Mao Zedong formally established the New People's Association, and the Madman's Diary was a hit when it was released.
Aired 16 February 2021 • 45 min
16. The restorationists even openly slandered Chen Duxiu, and the youth rehearsed a play to promote the new culture.
Aired 16 February 2021 • 45 min
17. Mao Zedong came to Peking University to observe and became Li Dazhao's assistant
Aired 27 February 2021 • 45 min
18. Mao Zedong receives new ideas of communism Curmudgeons make trouble in front of Chen Duxiu's house
Aired 28 February 2021 • 45 min
19. Germany's defeat and the victory of the Allies, China will attend the Paris Peace Conference
Aired 1 March 2021 • 45 min
20. Mao went to the grassroots to reach out to the working class in Yannian's experiment with anarchism
Aired 2 March 2021 • 45 min
21. The establishment of the work-study mutual aid society but the problems continue to weak countries without diplomatic petition was returned
Aired 3 March 2021 • 45 min
22. Mutual aid societies were slandered and defamed, and Peking University was attacked by the group
Aired 4 March 2021 • 45 min
23. Cai Yuanpei was lectured and questioned, and Peking University launched a desperate counterattack
Aired 4 March 2021 • 45 min
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
Aired 5 March 2021 • 45 min
25. Work-Study Mutual Aid Society officially closed its experiment and failed Mao thanked the people for their help and returned to Hunan
Aired 5 March 2021 • 45 min
26. The Paris Peace Conference assigned Shandong rights to Japan, and the delegation's good offices were unsuccessful in rejecting the agreement.
Aired 8 March 2021 • 45 min
27. The Treaty of Paris disgraced the rights of the people and aroused public anger.
Aired 8 March 2021 • 45 min
28. Universities unite to strike classes Arrested students finally released
Aired 9 March 2021 • 45 min
29. Cai Yuanpei was forced to leave to protect the arrested students Beijing universities resigned to strike in solidarity with Peking University
Aired 9 March 2021 • 45 min
30. The influence of the May Fourth Movement spread throughout the country, and Chen Duxiu and Hu Shih had major disagreements.
Aired 9 March 2021 • 45 min
31. Chen Yannian was beaten unconscious at a street rally, but Wu Bingxiang designed an attempt to isolate Chen Duxiu
Aired 9 March 2021 • 45 min
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.
Aired 11 March 2021 • 45 min
33. Students were forcibly detained school turned into a prison Chen family's undying desire to save the country father and son finally reconciled
Aired 11 March 2021 • 45 min
34. The student movement won a big victory and the government was forced to dismiss Cao Zhanglu
Aired 15 March 2021 • 45 min
35. Chen Duxiu was arrested and imprisoned, and Li Dazhao was forced to leave Beijing.
Aired 15 March 2021 • 45 min
36. China refuses to sign the Paris Peace Treaty. The May Fourth Movement achieves full victory.
Aired 16 March 2021 • 45 min
37. Cai Yuanpei returns to Peking University and Chen Duxiu is finally released from prison
Aired 16 March 2021 • 45 min
38. Chen Duxiu resigned from Peking University and New Youth finally resumed publication
Aired 17 March 2021 • 45 min
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
Aired 17 March 2021 • 45 min
40. Chen Duxiu returned to Shanghai to avoid the storm, and Chen and Li met on the road to build the party.
Aired 18 March 2021 • 45 min
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
Aired 18 March 2021 • 45 min
42. Chen Duxiu formally established the Communist Party and Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai firmly believed in it
Aired 19 March 2021 • 45 min
43. The Communist Party of China was formally established and the revolutionary martyrs pledged to defend their faith to the death
Aired 19 March 2021 • 45 min