Abstract：One cannot account for the track of globalization in China without relating to the May 4 th Movement, an inexhaustible topic in history. Starting from exploring the collision between Chinese and western cultures in the early 20 th century and Chinese intellectuals' shifting process from western culture treasury in the New Democracy Period, this paper aims at probing into the relationship between Chinese and western cultures in that period, which characterized by conflicts, interaction, complement, isomorphism, and pluralistic integration of different natures. It is hoped that the brand-new interpretation about the relationship between May 4 th and western literature, in terms of globalization, can reveal this fact: it is from the May 4 th Movement that China went with the tide of historical development and set out towards globalization.
