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MAO’S RED CHINA

MAO’S RED CHINA. The Japan-China War & Life in Kuomintang and Communist China. American Involvement in the Struggle Against Japan. Major Japanese Presence in China by 1941 US Entry into WWII Improves the Chinese Situation USSR Gets Involved…Invades Manchuria

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MAO’S RED CHINA

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  1. MAO’S RED CHINA The Japan-China War & Life in Kuomintang and Communist China

  2. American Involvement in the Struggle Against Japan • Major Japanese Presence in China by 1941 • US Entry into WWII Improves the Chinese Situation • USSR Gets Involved…Invades Manchuria • Japanese Surrender Ends Occupation

  3. The Chinese People at War • Millions of Chinese Suffered at the hands of Japanese Cruelty • Japanese Tactic had been to Terrorize Civilians • Millions of Civilian Deaths and Displaced Persons

  4. Sunkiang…presented a scene of indescribable desolation and destruction. Acres of houses have been laid waste as a result of aerial bombing, and there is hardly a building left standing that has not been gutted by fire. Smouldering ruins and deserted streets presented an eerie spectacle, the only living creatures being dogs unnaturally fattened by feasting on corpses. In the whole of Sunkiang, which should contain a densely packed population of approximately 100,000, I saw only 5 Chinese. No one is able to answer the questions of what has happened to the hundreds of thousands, or rather, millions of Chinese who have literally disappeared from this area. The whole 50 km route between Shanghai and Sunkiang is like a desert, with rice crops ungathered and left rotting in the fields as far as I could see. The traveler passes a continuous vista of blackened ruins and burnt out farms guarded over by gruesomely fattened dogs.

  5. The Communists at War • Chinese Communists Come out of the War in A Strong Position • Communists Moved Eastward from Yanan • Successful Against Japanese – 100 Regiments Battle • Peasantry Strongly Support the Red Army • Communists Liberate Areas

  6. The Two Chinas in 1945 – Life in Kuomintang China • Chiang Kaishek Governed as a Dictator – Representative of 1930s fascist tide • Political Police Force – The Blueshirts • Aims: • Modernization • Create a Sense of Unity

  7. Life in Kuomintang China If the national spirit is to be revived, there must be recourse to stable foundations. In the four principles of ancient times we have these foundations. Li means courtesy; I means services towards our fellow men and toward ourselves; Lien honesty and respect for the rights of others; and Chih, high-mindedness and honor. - Madame Chiang

  8. Life in Kuomintang China • Rural Service Established to Help Peasantry • Kuomintang didn’t address peasantry’s concerns • Kuomintang Support Never Comes from Peasantry

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