Students burning Japanese goods during the May Fourth Movement, Tsinghua School, Beijing. Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
- Is there an original caption or title for the photograph?
- Where is the photograph taken? Can you see anything relating to the event, environment, architecture, time of day, or season?
- What can you see in the photograph?
- Why do you think the photographs have been taken?
- Who is the audience for these photographs?
- What evidence do these photographs provide about the May Fourth Movement?
- Does the content of photographs suggest other lines of enquiry?
- What further sources would help us understand these photographs?
- Look these photographs again at the end of the lesson:
- Has your understanding of the photographs changed? Do these photographs give us a perspective on the May Fourth Movement that the written documents do not?