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"In the early 1900s, photos were rarely seen in China, and few survive today. Gamble captured valuable historical moments from the perspective of a sociologist and preserved those images well. They open a window for Chinese to better understand their history and complement existing historical documents for that period."

Guo Junying, curator of the New Culture Movement Memorial of Beijing, talks about a special photo exhibition with all photos taken by American photographer Sidney D. Gamble (1890-1968), grandson of James Gamble, one of the co-founders of Proctor & Gamble (P&G), around the time of the "May Fourth Movement (May 4, 1919). The exhibition was held to mark the 95th anniversary of the movement, an important cultural and political movement in modern China.