The Rural Cooperation Movement Of Sichuan Province In The Anti-Japanese War

In the period of Anti-Japanese War, a rural cooperation movement was initiated and carried out in Sichuan province in order to help recover the declining rural economy and reconstruct the rural society. As the most important part of rear areas, Sichuan's rural cooperation also took the responsibility of civil use and military supplies to struggle against the Japanese invaders.The thesis attempts to reconstruct the history of the movement by discussing the general situation of its administration system , finance system and education system so that we can get better understanding of its contributions in the special period of the Anti-Japanese War.The thesis is mainly made up of four parts. The fist part tells us that the movement was an outcome of the localization of western cooperativsim as well as the result of implementing the KMT government cooperative policy by analyzing Sichuan's social situation and people's livelihood before the movement. The other three parts mainly discuss the positive effects of the movement as well as point out its evil inherent by representing the general situation of the administration system, finance system and education system of the movement respectively.Finally, the author draws a conclusion that not only did Sichuan's rural cooperation movement have some positive effects on developing its rural economy and stabilizing the rural society, but also it made some contributions to China's victory against invaders. To a certain extent, It changed the traditionalcredit-and-debt form and the agricultural structure in Sichuan's rural society, so it was an important try in the course of Sichuan's rural modernization and its implementation also had a great impact on the descendants. However, it also had its own limitation for not being able to realize that imperialist economic invasion and cruel feudal land tax were causes of the declining rural economy. So it could not thoroughly solve the serious problems, especially the land tenure problem in the rural areas.