"From the May Fourth Movement to the War of Resistance against Japan and the founding of the PRC, in fact it was a victory of nationalism," says Ge Zhaoguang, who describes the "democratic state" which has been sought after ever since the May Fourth Movement as a "product of the collective imagination."
「由五四到抗日到中華人民共和國，其實是民族主義的勝利」，葛兆光也指出，五四至今追求的那個所謂的民主國家，是「想像的共同體」。