Nationalist China and White Terror
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- The White Terror 1927
- Climax of Chiangs attack on communists
- executed 5000 known communists
- The autumn harvest rising 1927
- CCP resistance led by Mao Zendong in Hunan 'Sun of Hunan' used peasant ties to raise army of 10,000
- Defiance of USSR orders that united front be maintained
- Fled to Jiangxi saved them
- The
- Climax of Chiangs attack on communists
- Nationalist China 1928-1937
- Chiang Kai Sheks plans for chinese delvelopment
- built on bases of three princaples but had to wait for 3 preliminary stages
- GMD dominance during which people would be educated in political knowledge and values
- The overthrow by the nationalist army of Chinas internal and external enemies
- Enlightened people would help turn chins into a full democracy
- Chiangs reforms
- Civil service modernised
- creation of special administrative departments and training colleges
- Chinese banks brought under central control
- The Shangai stock exchange became an international financial market
- The national resources commission was set up to develop trade and negotiate foreign deals
- Transport Improved and communication systems. Modern buses and trams developed
- Chinese film industry became internationally renowned
- Fashion houses in Shangai respected on international scale
- Opium trade brought under government control
- Restrictions were imposed on organised gambling rings
- built on bases of three princaples but had to wait for 3 preliminary stages
- Wanted some control over foreign interference
- Higher import and export costs
- Legal sector restructured
- High numbers of foreign troops due to 30th may so could not physically remove foreigners
- German influence in Nationalist China
- Chiangs Hans von seeckt chief adviser headed a german military mission to china
- Germany supplied weapons until 1936
- Secret policce
- New life movement
- The need to unite and crush communists
- rejection of communism and western capitalism
- Criticisms
- Funding by gangs (green gang)
- Couldn't abandon capitalism due to lack of money and reliance on western commercial and financial intrests
- Failure peasant poverty
- Ending of landlord control and exploitation of peasants
- extension of property rights to peasants
- protection of the peasants against excessive rents
- The guarantee of fair prices paid to peasants for agricultural produce
- aims unacheived
- nationalists only controlled up to 1/3 of china at a time
- Failure peasant poverty
- Ending of landlord control and exploitation of peasants
- extension of property rights to peasants
- protection of the peasants against excessive rents
- The guarantee of fair prices paid to peasants for agricultural produce
- aims unacheived
- Failure peasant poverty
- Japanese occupation of Manchuria 1931 reminder of how far from indipendance
- SUCCESSES
- - OVERTHREW WARLORDS - GAINED INTERNATIONAL RECOGNISITION - STEPS TOWARDS WORKABLE GOVERNMENTAND LEGAL SYSTEM
- FAILURE
- POWERLESS TO PREVENT FAMINE 1934-35 DEATH OF 30MILLION
- TOO PREOCCUPIED ON CRUSHING CCP
- PROGRESS TOWARDS REMOVING FOREIGN INTERFERENCE UNDERMINED BY MANCHURIA 1931
- UNABLE TO TACKLE URGENT SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
- COOPERATING WITH GANGS BETRAYED SENSE OF MORALS
- TURNED TO AUTHORITARIANISM TO CONSOLIDATE POWER
- Chiang Kai Sheks plans for chinese delvelopment
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