Government And The People Of The Middle Ground: Anti-japan Case Study

In order to deter the Northern Expedition of the National Government, Japan made the Jinan Incident while intruding into Shantung thirdly on May 1928. Chinese people whose nationalism motion surged and was acute, especially, Shanghai civil having stronger autonomy, asked for the National Government to treat seriously Japan. Kuomintung that was converting from the revolutionary party to the ruling party, dare not desert Revolution banner decisive and had to cope cautiously with popular nationalism motion, because devoting itself to the Northern Expedition so that decided to negotiate with Japan. As a result, Central Committee of Kuomintung made up to let local party headquarters lead the common people to organize the Anti-Japanese Society to resist Japanese commodity and break off economic relations with Japan, and tried to fit popular Anti-Japanese actions into guiding range: on one hand, may keep to order; on the other hand, may retaliate Japanese economy to help negotiation. So, local party headquarters held civil congress and built up the Anti-Japanese Society of Shanghai that its executive committee comprised twenty-one group with Shanghai civil. Then, it established organizations in which Shanghai local party headquarters acquired guiding position but all of popular group participated. They cooperated to erect regulations of resisting Japanese commodity. According to the regulations, the Anti-Japanese carried out the movement to break off economic relations with Japan mainly including propaganda and Peike , also initiate to set up the Anti-Japanese of country. These work made remarkable achievement and forced Japanese merchants to require their government to negotiate with the National Government quickly, and accelerate the process about resolving the Jinan Incident. However, once the Jinan Incident being resolved, Shanghai local party headquarters that looked Expanding Party Power and Consolidating Party Base for principal aim, wouldn't like to the common people continuing to bring play to affect, beside, Central Committee of Kuomintung order it to reorganize as the Anti-Japanese government's demanding, so the Anti-Japanese was substitute for kuo min jiu kuo hui controlled thoroughly by Shanghai local party headquarters. But, because there had grave problem inside this organize, Central Committee of Kuomintung ordered to abolish it on August, 1929.