In the words of Chow Tse-tsung, now aged 82, who was the first person to write a doctoral thesis on May Fourth: "The May Fourth Movement was complex. In the past, people have tried to explain or criticize it without having first got all the details clear.
「五四是複雜的，過去沒弄清楚事情原委就要建立解釋、發表批評，如今應該重新估價五四。」