Korean March 1st Movement And The May Fourth Movement In China

1919 was a most important year both in China and Korea. In this yearKorea broke out San-Yi Movement and China broke out Wu-Si Movement. San-YiMovement was a large-scale, spontaneous and anti-imperialist revolt in Koreahistory, while in China Wu-Si Movement was the beginning of democraticrevolutionary.In this thesis, I try to illustrate the status of the two movements intheir own countries through describing the backgrounds, processes,characters and significances of them. And also I want to analyze the effectsand different results of the two movements in their own countries, explainthe history that China and Korea help each other and support each other inthe struggle of being against the Japanese imperialist.This thesis includes three parts: introduction, main body andconclusion.The first part introduces the trend, purpose, significance, motive andmethods of this study.The main body has three chapters:Chapter Two mainly describes the international and national backgroundsand the processes of San-Yi Movement and Wu-Si Movement. Both of themovements that were patriotic and against the Japanese imperialist occurredunder the World War I and Russia October Revolutionary. The people who lovetheir countries started a dynamic movement in China and Korea under differentconditions in their own countries. There are a lot of similarities of theirprocesses, so I write them generally and contrastively in this chapter.Chapter Three mainly discusses the characters and effects of San-Yi andWu-Si movements. San-Yi Movement and Wu-Si Movement were great movementsof trying for the independent and liberate of nations. But San-Yi Movementrequired to go back to the former form of the country, so it had halfwayanti-feudal character which Wu-Si Movement was different form. San-YiMovement and Wu-Si Movement both erected a monument and had a profoundmeaning of history. And from the more expansive area, these two movementsnot only meant a lot to their own countries but was a climax of the movementsin North-east Asia. San-Yi Movement and Wu-Si Movement were the symbols of that the two countries strived side by side and supported each other to beagainst the Japanese imperialist. Since then this history of the North-eastAsia went into a new stage. San-Yi Movement was defeated at last while Wu-SiMovement's direct aim—refusing to sign in the contract and dismissing thequislings—was reached. From this sense the results of the two movementswere different.Chapter Four mainly discusses the relationship of San-Yi Movement andWu-Si Movement. During San-Yi Movement, the press of china paid so lot ofattention that all kinds of newspapers described the reasons, processes,results and meanings of this movement systemically, completely and brightly.In the meanwhile, China gave a political support to Korea. This was thesupport and aid that Chinese gave to Korean. Of course, Korean also offeredsupport and took part in the war of being against Japan. In Wu-Si Movementtwo months later, many Koran participated in parades or aided Chinese peoplefrom other ways. The similar density, the same target and the support fromeach other made the two nations unite together tightly and developed thefriendship between them in the revolts.Chapter Five is conclusion.