Many years later in oral recollections (compiled by Tang Degang as Oral Autobiography of Hu Shih), Hu characterized the May Fourth Movement as "an unfortunate political disturbance."
經過多年之後，胡適在他自己的口述回憶錄（後經唐德剛整理成《胡適口述自傳》）裡，將五四定位成「一場不幸的政治干擾」。