Kuomintang And The Communist Party’s Local Tyrants And Evil Gentry Policy Research In National Revolution Period

With the drastic changes of modern society, the study on gentlemen class has an important value on analyzing the evolution of modern Chinese society.The study on gentleman group is a hot spot in the study of social history of China. As a very important group, with an extreme transformation process in modern society, we can grasp the evolution of modern society by learning from this class.Gentleman as a special class in imperial era and the society of the republic of China period, which have a very impressive impact on Chinese society. With the development of the era, the connotation of the gentleman’s class changes constantly. The traditional gentleman, with an imperial fame or a certain title, is a privileged class, and they shared the same Confucian values and cultural interest. But up to the period of the republic of China, the connotation of the gentleman was much more complex.In the1920s, the word of "revolution" became the mainstream of the national revolution, so the "local tyrants and evil gentry" in countryside inevitably became the object of revolution. It was a kind of inevitable choice for The National Party to construct the state power, achieve reunification from central to local levels, and break original situation in the control of local gentlemen. However,"land reform, all power belongs to the peasant associations, change the village social power structure." are the claim of The Communist Party. In front of the class struggle theory of the communist party, the old gentleman classy in countryside inevitably became the object of the revolution. Although the different interest orientation between The National Party and The Communist Party, they have a common goal in advance the national revolution process in the specific time, thus promoted the rural peasant movement, with the form of "down with local tyrants and evil gentry", so the gentleman class in countryside were also be included in it.In the national revolution, The National Party and The Communist Party propaganda "down with local tyrants and evil gentry", but the difference is that The National Party advocated Class harmonization, but The Communist Party advocated class struggle firmly. Under the banner of the national revolution, the goal of The National Party and The Communist Party seems to be consistent on the surface.In fact, behind the slogan of "down with local tyrants and evil gentry", hardening two different value pursuit. Purpose, methods and means, for hitting the local tyrants and evil gentry are different between The National Party and The Communist Party, with the end of the two parties’ cooperation, the local tyrants and evil gentry was left in the countryside. Although Local tyrants and evil gentry still exist after the blow of the national revolution, they had less influence in the country.