Study On The Boycott Of The Japanese Goods From 1931 To 1933

The boycott of the Japanese goods from 1931 to 1933 was the patriotic movementof resisting Japanese aggression when the national conflict rising sharply. Thismovement lasted for two years, it began at "the Wan-baoshan Incident" and "theKorea Repulsion of China Tragedy", and reached its climax after "the MukdenIncident of September 18th", then after "Shanghai Incident" it began to decline, hadnot sued and discontinued until the beginning of the summer of 1933. The movementhad got extensive support and participation of different levels of the society, businesscircles, worker circles, education circles, peasants, women stratum, personnel andintellectual of some Party and Government had successively took part in themovement. The movement had nearly spread the whole country when it developing tothe high tide, among them the most influential one was the midstream and thedownstream area of the Changjiang River taking Shanghai and Nanking as the center,secondly was the Southern China, the last was the Northern China.The movement was mainly led under some organization resisting the Japanesegoods. Besides the existing "Chamber of Commerce", various groups andorganizations were established from all over the country, "the MuncipicalAnti-Japanese and Chinese Emigration Support Association", "Anti-Japanese andNational Salvation Association", "the Group of Keeling","the Group for theExtermination of Traitors"were the comparative important ones. These organizationswere well organized, divided their work carefully inside. Though they emerged atdifferent time and represented different strata, the goal of resisting the Japanese goodsand objecting Japanese invade was identical. In addition, these groups andorganizations were also the leader of the movement, their actions made up of the basicframe of the anti-Japanese movement.The boycott of the Japanese goods from 1931 to 1933 had aroused great concernfrom various circles of society. During the early and middle period, the NationalGovernment of Nanking had basically taken the attitude of nonintervention, but inlater stage, its attitude had changed to some extent, taken some measures ofsuppressing to the movement under the stress of the diplomatic pressure. In addition,some businessmen who lack of patriotism transported the Japanese goods secretly atthe volley and organized a reactionary "Red Clothing Ensure Group" to destroy themovement were spurned unanimously by the national people. Japanese authorities paygreat attention to this movement too, besides the diplomatic means;they also took aseries of military measures to attack the movement, a series of economic measures tosave the loss caused in the movement. The response of the Japanese people who livedin china was the most fierce, they not only went to the congregation, presentedpetition, but also successively established "Secret Agent Team" and "Alert Group ofDay", etc. to destroy the movement. In the international world, American peoplelaunched extensive Japanese goods boycott to support the movement, having offeredthe Chinese people great encouragement. The League of Nations appraised thismovement and made some important conclusion.The boycott of the Japanese goods from 1931 to 1933, no matter the duration, thestratum of the range, the participation of the movement, the response of the movementwere unprecedented in china's modern history. Though it not obtained the anticipatedeffect, it struck the dumping of the Japanese goods in china and hence promoted theadvancement of the domestic made goods movement, and offered opportunities forthe development of national capitalism, stimulated the national patriotic emotion atthe same time and good for the development of the modern nationalism.