In his Modern History of China, Chang Yu-fa writes that some people trace the mainland's fall to the communists back to the birth of the CPC during the May Fourth / New Culture Movement era, and on this basis castigate the entire May Fourth Movement mercilessly. But in fact this is a merely a case of anger being vented on an innocent bystander.
張玉法在《中國現代史》中寫道：有人把大陸的淪陷追溯到中共的誕生，而中共誕生在五四新文化運動時代，因而把整個五四攻擊得體無完膚，實是一種遷怒的心態。