History 1601E Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nanking Massacre, Marco Polo Bridge Incident, New Life Movement

• School: Western University
• Department: History
• Course: History 1601E
• Professor: Cary Takagaki

Document Summary

Strategic: a strong china to keep japan in check. Period of cooperation between the nationalist party (guomindang) and the chinese. August 1923: sun yatsen send chiang kaishek to study first hand the soviet military system. Nationalist party campaign to subdue the warlords to china. Chinese bankers & industrialist support a national, but not a social revolution. 1927: 499 unions representing 821,282 workers in shanghai. Chiang kaishek breaks with the ccp and initiates suppression of communism in. 1920s and 1930s: green gang was exploited by business and the guomindang to control worker"s strikes a(cid:374)d the ccp. Banks deposits increase 245% between 1921 to 1932. Indifference on the part of the nationalist party to the conditions of the countryside. Chiang kaishek turns to germany for help in modernizing his army. Blue shirts (1932): function as secret police of chiang kaishek; anti-communist, anti-new culture. New life movement aims at the promotion of a regular life guided: li, yi, lian, chi.