当前对“五四”的重新评估,可能导源于美国学者林毓生教授。他的著作《中国意识的危机》在国际汉学界颇有影响,80年代中期翻译成中文后,在中国一些青年学者中间也引起反响。90年代,北京大学哲学系陈来教授 The current reevaluation of the May Fourth Movement may be derived from the American scholar Professor Lin Yusheng. His book, The Crisis of Chinese Consciousness, has had an impact in international sinology. After it was translated into Chinese in the mid-1980s, it also aroused repercussions among some young Chinese scholars. In the 90’s, Professor Chen Lai from Peking University Philosophy Department