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This article reports on a three-day conference held at Peking University, April 23-25, 2009, sponsored by Peking University’s Department of Chinese Literature, in commemoration of the 90th anniversary of the protests that began on May 4, 1919, when many intellectuals spoke out against the treatment of China’s status as a nation at the Paris Peace Conference. Several themes dominated the papers presented: the historical interpretation of the May Fourth Movement; the study of the May Fourth political culture; May Fourth as a discourse; the “late Qing” component of the May Fourth Movement; and the changing academic view of May Fourth from intellectual history to sociology. [ABSTRACT FROM CONTRIBUTOR]