The Origin And The Development Of The Chinese National Government's Supports Toward The Korean Independence Movement

The National Independent Movement of Korea and the anti-imperialism patriotic movement in China are important parts of modern anti-imperialism struggle for independence in oriental nations. Korea was annexed by Japan in 1910. Many patriotic revolutionaries organized the anti-Japanese struggle in Korea and the northeast of China. The Korean Provisional Government (KPG) was an exile government established in Shanghai in 1919 based on the Korean 3.1 Independence Movement. With the help of China, Korea spent 26 years in strugglling with Japanese for independence. In each historical stage, Kuomintang began to render concern and sympathy to the Korean Independence Movement from Sun Yat-sen.Sun Yat-sen explicitly expressed support to the Korean Independence Movement. He acknowledged the KPG and trained soldiers. He made positive efforts to assist Korea with independence. After Sun Yat-sen passed away, Chiang Kai-shek inherited the policy that assisted in the small and weak national established by Sun Yat-sen. Various aids were offered by Chiang for the Korean Independence Movement. Such independence movements united with the Anti-Japanese War and fighted against Japanese fascism. Kuomintang not only aided the Korean Independence Movement overtly, but also increased in both scale and force. With the help of Chiang, the political parties and groups of Korean Independent Movement united in a degree. He actively supported the Voluntary Team and the Guang Fu Army of Korea to carry out anti-Japanese activity in China. And he gave the KPG economic aid and positively assisted the KPG to obtain the recognition of the international community at the international conference. However, as a result of the contradiction between UK-US and Soviet Union in the Far East, the target was not achieved in the end.In the process of the research on the history of Sino-Korean relationship, because of material insufficiency and language limit, many researches concentrate on the Chinese National Government. In the researches, academic circles have different viewpoints on the questions. For example, are the attitude of South Government and Beijing Government to the Korean Independence Movement different? Why did not the Chinese National Government acknowledge the KPG officially finally? It is also worth further discussing.This article takes the time as a vein, attempting to inspect and analyze the origin and the development of the Chinese National Government supporting the Korean Independence Movement, according to the international environment and various historical materials. Moreover, the article studies the characteristic of Sino-Korean relationship in each historical stage. This article attempts to promot researches on the development of modem Sino-Korean relationship's history and Sino-Korean history of anti-Japanese struggle.