Awakening Age — Season 1, Episode 1: Li Dazhao's impassioned speech to save the country
Drama • 45 min • 1 season, 43 episodes • ★ 8.6/10
About 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.
More episodes from Season 1
- E2Chen Duxiu finally arrives in Shanghai, teased by his son, but rejoices instead
- E3Chen Duxiu went so far as to sell his words to raise money Li Dazhao was expelled and determined to revolutionize
- E4Li Dazhao pawned his clothes for the poor people Cai Yuanpei became the president of Peking University with the ambition to create a new style
- E5Cai Yuanpei wanted to invite Chen Duxiu to teach at Peking University Chen Duxiu could not leave the new youth newspaper and refused twice
- E6Li Dazhao and Chen Duxiu finally meet in Beijing, but Chen Duxiu's appointment at Peking University is controversial
- E7Huang Kan's misbehavior and words displease students
- E8The royalist forces on campus remain strong, and the imperial system is restored again when the braid army enters the city
- E9BYU reform gains support
- E10Extended year obsession with anarchism
- E11Koo Hongming's academic attainments were indeed profound, and Li Dazhao began to reflect on capital to save the country
- E12The dismissal of foreign professors at Peking University has led to a diplomatic controversy, and the university's senate is unanimous in defending national sovereignty.
- E13The British government was pressured to settle the matter, and Lu Xun joined the new youth as a tiger.