蔡元培与五四运动

Cai Yuanpei and the May Fourth Movement

蔡元培出任北大校长后,通过一系列脱胎换骨的改革为北大成为五四运动的发源地奠定了基础。在五四运动从爆发到获胜的全过程中,蔡元培自始至终与运动如影随行,起到了独一无二、不可替代的重要作用:由于他的影响,运动定格在了5月4日;又由于他的辞职和复职,运动得以持续并掀起高潮以至最终获得全胜。蔡元培堪称是五四运动的引发者、护航者、助推者,一定意义上也是运动的终结者,还是运动成果在北大的延续者。

After assuming office as the president of Peking University,Cai Yuanpei had rolled out a series of radical reforms which laid the foundation for Peking University to be the birthplace of the May Fourth Movement.During the whole Movement from its outbreak to victory,Cai Yuanpei stayed engaged and played a unique and indispensable role in that his dedication made the Movement freeze-framed on May 4th of 1919.Moreover,his resignation and reinstatement sustained the Movement with a climax and then a complete victory reached.Cai Yuanpei was the initiator,escort and booster of the May Fourth Movement.In certain sense,he was the terminator of the Movement and the inheritor of the accomplishments of the Movement in Peking University.