Mr. Science and Mr. Democracy
5 min readMay 8, 2020
Photo by Paweł Czerwiński on Unsplash
During the May Fourth Movement (1919) in China, Chinese intellectuals and students did a deep reflection on traditional Chinese culture and the reasons for Chinese “backwardness.” They decided that what China lacked was two things — Mr. Science and Mr. Democracy. They believed that these two things had to be imported from the West.