The arena of competition:revisiting the student movement at National Southeast University in the early 1920s
With the increasing ideological differences and growing partisan divide after the May Fourth Movement,National Southeast University soon became the headquarters for local political groups and student movements in Nanjing.Against the background of the reorganization of the Kuomintang and the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China,the two parties initiated the"People's School Movement"in Southeast.They were engaged in the fierce struggles for school rights with anarchists and nationalists and the mobilization of students in participation of the revolution.The events including the prohibition of Nanjing Review,the people's School Movement,and the contest for leadership within the student union provide a new perspective for studying the student movements at National Southeast University in the early 1920s.This study also reveals the intense contention of different schools of thought and political competitions during the early period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.