On May 4, 1919, 3,000 students marched through the centre of Beijing to protest against the weakness of their country, an iconic event still known today as the "May Fourth Movement". Many of those students were enrolled at Peking University, the Chinese capital's finest seat of learning, whose president was a scholar named Cai Yuanpei. Cai was wedded to the idea of a university as a place that provided "education for a worldview": not just instruction, but a whole new way of seeing and being.
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