Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the May Fourth Movement

4 May the 108th year of the Republic (2019)

At 2pm on Saturday 4 May in the 108th year of the Republic (2019), the Allegiance to the National Flag Committee of Sung Tao Society held the Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the May Fourth Movement at the Sun Yun-suan Memorial Museum. 

The May Fourth Movement was an event that happened on 4 May 1919, when students in Peking realized that the Paris Peace Conference had failed China and the partition of Tsingtao by Japan was irrevocable, they banded together and vowed to reverse the predicament. Their protest later evolved into a nationwide movement. 

At the Commemoration, the speakers included Mr. Wu Shih-wen (伍世文部長), former Minister of Defense; and Mr. Wu Tun-i (吳敦義主席), Chairman of the Chinese Kuomintang. Speakers at the panel were Mr. Fu Le-chih (傅樂治先生); Mr. Fu Li-chung (符立中先生); Ms. Chang Hsiao-feng (張曉風立委), former Legislator; Mr. Chou Yü-shan (周玉山委員), Member of the Examination Yuan; Mr. Roy Delbyck (戴銳律師) and Mr. Soong Shu Kong (宋緒康先生). At the event, the book The Struggle to Reverse Destiny-Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the May Fourth Movement by Mr. Soong Shu Kong was also launched.