The Winter Study In Shanxi Anti-Japan Base And The Reconstruction Of Rural Community

The winter study was a cultural tradition in the northern part of the country. After the War of Resistance against Japan broke out, the Communist Party sponsored the winter study movement which was a catholic, frequent and efficient mode of social education. The treatise, which orientates at the winter study in Shanxi anti-Japanese base and relies on files, introduces general situation of the winter study from teaching management, compulsory teachers, books and tuition contents. Then the article proposes the winter study had three phases: learning to read and being reasonable; taking police as a basis while making learning to read subsidiary; solving all problems. The winter study had some traits in the particular period, such as class nature, agitate character, oversimplification and popularity and so on. The paper analyses the winter study movement's infiltration and influences on rural social structure as a kind of authority of ideology from social custom, power authority and social structure.The Communist Party progressively explored a revolutionary educational theory with Chinese characteristics through the winter study practice. As a large scale social education, the winter study made quite progresses. In particular, the winter study not only eliminated illiteracy to some extent, but also improved the mass political level and aroused the mass patriotic consciousness and enthusiasm of the political participation.Undoubtedly, The Communist Party wined high political prestige through the practice of the winter study. In the meantime, the winter study played an important part in rebuilding advantageous revolutionary space by transforming rural society and consolidating social resources.Nevertheless, the winter study movement had unavoidable limitations under wartime system which possessed revolutionary characteristics. As a...