In Fairbank & Goldman’s book China: A New History, the origins of the Chinese Communist Party is discussed and at the beginning of the passage, the text states that the May Fourth intellectuals who were in search of new state power divided themselves into two groups: the first were academics who concentrated as scholars, and the second were political activists who joined in creating the movement of the Chinese Communist Party. This is interesting for me to read more about because I was not as familiar with a lot of the history leading up to the formation of the Communist Party in China. The New Culture Movement in China was also something I was not very familiar with beforehand, including the idea that the advocates of this movement felt that they were in a new role to serve society rather than the state. Similarly, because they wanted to reach the common people, they saw Socialism as a way to bring intellectuals and workers together. The text also mentioned that by the time the principle of party disciple was accepted, over half of the original twelve founding members had left the movement. Overall, I thought this text provided a clear history of the Chinese Communist Party, including how its origins and power structure, as well some of the challenges that China was struggling with when the Chinese Communist Party was founded.