Academia Sinica member Li Yi-yuan recalls how when Hu Shih became president of Academia Sinica in 1958, then-ROC president Chiang Kai-shek said in a speech there: "The May Fourth Movement was an important incident in the chain of events which forced us to flee the mainland."
中研院院士李亦園記得，一九五八年胡適就任院長，當時的總統蔣介石特地到院內來講話：五四是使我們撤離大陸的重要原因。