Author(s)

Zhiwu Zhou

Academy of Marxism, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China.

Whampoa Military Academy is a new type of military school founded in 1924 by Sun Yat-sen with the help of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Soviet Union. It is the result of the first cooperation between the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Communist Party and has a far-reaching impact on the history of Chinese revolution and military. As an important patriotism education base, the Whampoa Military Academy Site plays a crucial role for Chinese people, especially college students. The base is divided into two parts in the patriotic education for college students: one is tourism education, the other is the cooperation with universities to carry out political education. This paper mainly conducts a research, then analyzes the current situation of the Whampoa Military Academy Site in contemporary student political education, finds out the existing problems and gives some advice.

Whampoa Military Academy Site, Patriotic Education, Present Situation, Proposal, University Students

Zhou, Z. (2018) The Current Situation of Whampoa Military Academy Site in the Patriotic Education of Contemporary College Students. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 6, 200-209. doi: 10.4236/jss.2018.66018.