A child in a tiger costume. Sidney D.gamble

Zhou started working on the metadata on the Gamble photographs in 2008, when the images had been sent to Duke after digitization.

Among the 5,000 photographs in this collection are about 2,000 images related to Beijing. "The majority of images were never published or exhibited during his lifetime," Guo says.

The memorial has received about 300 to 400 visitors on workdays and nearly 700 on weekends since the exhibition opened.

"In a picture that shows a traditional Chinese funeral, I saw a (rare, sacrificial) paper car. It's amazing. I never expected that these luxury sacrifices had such long history in China," says a visitor from Beijing.

A middle school student says that young Chinese lack such passion today and they need to learn from the spirit of the May Fourth Movement.

"The spirit involves patriotism, progress, democracy and science. While we make more money and enjoy a better life today, we need to seek spiritual pursuit and faith. This exhibition gives us a new perspective to know our history in a vivid and objective way," Guo says.

IF YOU GO

New Culture Movement Memorial

29 Wusi Dajie, Dongcheng district, Beijing.

9 am-3:30 pm, Tuesday-Sunday, until May 18.

010-6612-8596.

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