Revolution And Order

In the first half of the 20th century, China rural areas were in a state of radical upheaval. The exploration of the revolutionary movements and reformation during this time will not only be beneficial to our understanding about the order integration and reshaping in rural areas under the influence of the revolution, but also provide us a new research angle for comprehending the interrelationship between the national regime and the mass attitudes.During the period of the Republic of China, three important universal social problems existed in rural areas. They were: how to eliminate the disasters, banditry and the polarization of the rich and poor in order to restore rural social stability, how to handle the tense relationships between the rural areas and national regime which were caused by the aggravating taxes and duties, and how to find a way out for peasants in poverty besides their traditional agricultural production.Focusing on Yuncheng County, a economic-laggard, remote county in north China's Shandong Province, adopting a research method by combining archives with narrated interviews, and examining from the angle of interaction between revolution regime and rural peasants, this dissertation analyzes the order integration and reshaping in rural areas by the Chinese Communist Party's revolutionary movements, which was once unstable, explores the impact on infrastructure society affected by the revolutionary processing: such as anti-Japanese mobilization, agrarian revolution and collectivization, etc. Before the year of 1939, to a great extent, traditional peasantry economy and ethics had still constituted the social order in Yuncheng county, but which was made turbulent by disasters, banditry and overweigh taxation. During the War of Anti-Japanese, the anti-Japanese armed force and regime in Yuncheng county under the leadership of the Chinese Community Party(CCP), as the local main resistance military force, lifting highly the banner against Japanese, was supported by the rural people and became theirs representative of interests. In the agrarian reform from 1946 to 1949, by virtue of discriminating the enemy from us, substituting the old infrastructure with the new one, the democratic regime in Yuncheng county accomplished the integration of rural people's thinking and activity, which had played an import role in winning the...