Research On The Ideological Trend Of National Revival In Anti-Japanese War

In1930s, many intellectuals started a discussion on "Chinese Renaissance" in the background of national crisis, which became a hot topic of the republic of China ideological field. In the late1930s KMT regime gradually seized the ideological discourse power of national revival, and transformed the meaning of the idea through a series of political propaganda, which contributed to the change of the ideological connotation of national revival. Meanwhile, the thoughts became the tool of the KMT to publicize their political claims under the influence of political power. The national revival thought was originally responded to the times of crisis by the intellectuals, but the KMT regime regarded it as important ideological resource to use, giving its instrumentality, to achieve the transformation of social ideology. When we study the process of the changes of national revival thoughts, we need to focus our attention on the role of the KMT’s ideological control at the spread of the ideology.Social memory is an important ideological tool, and social commemoration is an important place to construct social memory. Nationalists achieved the purpose of ideological control by manipulating social memory. You could say that the period of the Republic of China, especially during the anti-Japanese war, social observances of the KMT regime all had the intention of ideological control. Nationalists borrowed revolution resources, national resources, reality resources, which jointly reconstructed the commemoration of this period, enriching its content, and linking the main celebrations with discourse of national revival. It not only strengthened the social observances’ authority, but also consolidated the legitimacy of the regime. In addition to the use of different social memory resources, the KMT regime also used to commemorate a special event to promote their political national revival proposition. Republican National Revival Day is not a statutory holiday, but as important cultural memory of the spread of national revival thoughts is widely accepted. On the one hand, reflects the concentrated needs of crisis mentality under national peril, on the other hand, it highlights the political ability of the KMT’s propaganda. With the large number of KMT ideology infiltration, the connotations of national revival thoughts changed.Renaissance discourse was joined the ideology of KMT, and became a tool for political propaganda, which caused the transition of original values. It is an authentic portrayal of national revival thoughts variation during the war, and is the result of the KMT regime ideological reconstruction. So National Revival Day commemoration was added to the meaning of national unity and worship leaders. However, the longevity of these anniversaries is extremely short. As the positive battlefield continuous suffered a setback, the ability of leaders had been questioned. After1943, large-scale celebrations associated with the revival never appeared. Regime discourse construction led by the KMT also eventually bankrupted with the fall of the KMT regime.