The Research On The Cooperation Between Yan Xishan And CCP To Resist Japan: 1935-1940

In the history of People's Republic of China, Yan Xishan was a controversial figure. After the Revolution of 1911, unified-central government has been already out of the stage of history. The historical pattern about "long divide necessarily, divide long match necessarily" guided China to continue to move forward. After a few struggles, finally, Yan Xishan had woken up to his errors. He made up his mind to turn Shanxi to an independent kingdom. In the September 18th Incident, Japan launched a war of aggression against China, therefore Shanxi also can't survive in such a difficult situation. When Yan Xishan makes his own decisions, how to preserve his power turns to be the starting point and the foothold. This article follows the consistent principle of history and logic. To carding and implement cooperative Anti-Japanese, Yan Xishan cooperating with CCP during 1935-1940, has four aspects, including the background, process, resistance to the end and evaluation etc.Facing the Japanese invasion and pushing from Chiang Kai-shek, Yan Xishan chose to cooperate with Chinese Communist Party for two reasons. On the one hand, the aim of the cooperation was to maintain Yan Xishan's own rule. On the other hand, it goes hand in hand with Yan Xishan's some traits, such as the influence of the Confucian culture when he was young, the experience of studying in Japan, and his domestic and patriotic feelings in a sense. In this period, to resist Japan, the cooperation between Yan Xishan and Chinese Communist Party supported Shanxi new entrants, expanding their army, claiming people mobilization, and implementing the whole nation into the war. These all, which made quite a contribution to the resistance in Shanxi Province and nationwide resistance, is worth for sure. Yan Xishan is a representative of the big landlords and big bourgeoisie. The limit of his class leads that their cooperation is full of contradictions and limited.The cooperation between Yan Xishan and the Chinese Communist Party, in 1935-1940, is not bon voyage. On the whole, it had a few times changes as follows. After Red Army Dong Zheng, it was from mutual cooperative sincerity to upper Anti-Japanese National United Front.; after the July 7th Incident, both parties undergone the changes from achieving full cooperation of Anti-Japanese into cooperation crisis; after the December Incident, they began to make their management dependently. Yan Xishan remained the one neutral figure between two parties, and the cooperation is in tatters. During this period, the efforts of the Chinese Communist Party maintained the cooperation to the full extent. For instance, the Communist Party of China adhered to the principle and flexibility strategy. On the one hand, she always upheld to the leadership of the party in the united front. On the other hand, she can change the form of struggle, as far as possible, to make the decision accepted by both sides. Another example was like that,in the actual work, the Chinese Communist Party persisted the principle of independence, taking the tactics both unity and struggle, timely hitting the arrogance of the die-hard forces, and expanding the Anti-Japanese forces in Shanxi, developing and perfecting the Shanxi Anti-Japanese National United Front.