Few events in the twentieth century have exerted more lasting impact on the formation, transformation, and self-consciousness of modern Chinese culture than the May Fourth Movement. What is May Fourth and why does it matter? On the one hand, May Fourth ushered in an age of everything new — new culture, new science, and new revolution — jettisoning all things old and Chinese; on the other, it sought to reinvent a form of Chinese nationalism that would not only salvage the nation in peril but also maintain a certain continuity with what was understood to be Chinese. Imagining ourselves as the "new youth" of that new era, we take this seminar as a discursive center where intense cultural, intellectual, and political debates took place and we seek to understand the literary, aesthetic, epistemological, and political implications of this seismic events that came to be defined as the May Fourth Movement, rethinking its legacy, challenges, and unfulfilled promises.