The ami of this volume is to reflect adequately the course and contents of the internatinal sinological symposium: Interliterary and Intraliterary aspects of the May Fourth Movement 1919 in China, held March 13-17, 1989, at the Smolenice Castle, near Bratislava, czechoslovakia. these materials are to be regarded by the readers, provided they were not among 67 participants from PRC, USSR, USA, Canada, FRG, GDR, Austria, Italy, norway, switzerland, West Berlin, Hong Kong and Czechoslovakia, as a "call" to think over their message.