The Hubei Merchants's Association (Shang Min Xie Hui) Around Northern Expedition

Hubei Merchants's Association is made up of small and medium-sized businessman,shopkeepers,venders mainly guided by the lefty of KMT and CCP in the late 1920s.It is an important supplement to revolution force after National Revolution as well as a social phenomenon with trade union, agricultural council's establishing. Merchants's Association is a new thing in the businessmen groups around the Northern Expedition, worthy focus.Studying the modern china businessman and its groups, and the KMD' s people campaign, Hubei Merchants's Association and Merchants's Movement are classcial cases, worthy further exploration. Hubei is located in the forward position of revolution, where Wuhan National Government is. Hubei Merchants's Association is so active that it is rather valuable in the early history of Merchants's Movement Hubei Merchants's Association is founded under the leading of the lefty of KMT and CCP, best emboding the spirit of Merchants's Movement Resolution, to some extent, it promoted the North Expedition and National Revolution .So it has political influence beyond others. Hubei Merchants's Association and Merchants's Movement have the ero and geographic characteristic. By studying the Merchants's Association we can clarify some specious awareness in KMT lauching campaign about the North Expedition period. By the in -depth study of Hubei Merchants's Association, there is a observation angle helping us understand the changes and limitations.From a large number of local literature data, a more comprehensive picture to Hubei Merchants's Association and Merchants's Movement is be seen, on the basis the characteristic and status extract. The research is aimed at the promotion of our knowledge about the hubei people campaign around the North Expedition period, increasing the perceptive understanding about the modern businessman, trying to offering some strong empirical basis.This paper is divided into four chapters. Introduction and conclusion except each chapter, the other three chapters on basic issues. Chapter 2 introduces Hubei profile before and after the founding of the Association . Any history of things must be in a certain era and regional environment nurtured the development and prototyping. We must understand Hubei business associations and the public to the development of the sport, on its response to the times background and characteristics of the region have the necessary awareness. Including Hubei business conditions, the KMT local organizations in the creation and development, Hubei part of the Association to the formation and development of the situation. Chapter III discussed the Hubei Association of social relations. The association is in a exsiting Chinese modern society had had a form. Since its creation, it is facing complex social relationships. How to handle these relations and how to handle these relations is the existence of the Association of fundamental guarantee. This chapter focuses on the business associations and chambers of commerce, trade unions, the Federation of shopkeepers. Chapter IV discussed the Association of Hubei to the characteristics and status. This chapter deals province to the mass public associations, organizations, the importance of cooperation in the agricultural characteristics, and they also pointed out the existence of the problem.