On the eve of 4 June 1989, Professor Yu Ying-shih of Princeton University said that by their spontaneous demands for democracy, mainland students were "taking back" the right to interpret May Fourth.
一九八九年六四前夕，美國普林斯頓大學教授余英時曾說，大陸學生自發的要求民主，是在「奪回」五四的詮釋權。