A Review Of Pseudo - Military Work In Shandong Anti - Japanese Base Area

According to the situation early in the Anti-Japanese war, Chinese Communist Party built a Anti-Japanese Base in Shandong. Shandong played a very important role in the war. However, people at this area are stubborn and conservative, thus there were little people support the Chinese Communist Party. During the Anti-Japanese war, there were more and more patriots, while at the meantime, the number of the Japanese puppet army in Shandong was more than any other areas it the country. As to change this condition, Chinese communists at the Shandong Anti-Japanese Base implemented a policy based on the Central Spirit that to persuade the Japanese puppet army to join their cause first. They analyzed the sources of the Japanese puppet army, which mainly came from two kinds of people: ordinary people who had little love of their country and were bought by the Japanese, the soldiers of the Nationalist Party who failed the wars and thus were taken in and reorganized by the Japanese army. On the ground of the different sources, Chinese communists classified the Japanese puppet army into two kinds: small-scaled puppet army and big-scaled puppet army. According to the features of the Japanese puppet army, the Chinese communists adopted varied of strategies to persuade the puppet army to join their cause. However, the strategies were changing all the time during the Anti-Japanese war because of lacking of understanding of the puppet army. The biggest change happened about 1940 or 1941. Based on these strategies, the incite defection tasks included establishing stations to deal with the enemies, doing propaganda and education work, sending some people to do the undercover work and working on underground gangs. All these work had a deep influence on the Chinese Communist itself and the Anti-Japanese war.Chinese communists in Shandong played a very important role in persuading the puppet army to join their cause. The fact that the puppet army was dissolved resulted in the forces of Japanese weaken and the forces of Chinese Communist strengthen. While at the same time, with the Chinese Communist’ profile raising, there were more and more people turned to support the Chinese Communist. We can tell that the work that the Chinese communists in Shandong did was of a great effect on the Anti-Japanese war and the war of liberation in China, even the world anti-Fascist war.