East Asian Study

Pereception of communism in china

-scientific

-anti western

-anti imperialist

-successful

New culture movement

-a movement among Chinese scholars in the early 20th century to revaluate traditional Confucian values

-The first united front

-sun yatsen lack of unity within his party KMT

-lack of western support for china, the Versailles treaty did not really support china

-Soviet Union offers to help sun yatsen

-ideological reason: foster socialist revolutions in other countries

-strategic: a strong China to keep Japan in check

-japanese are not sympathetic to communism because communism are anti-imperialistic

-Japanese government is strongly anti-communist

-Yuan shikai gets $25 million loan form European banks for his second revolutions

-British supplies yuan shikai with munitions and block sun yatsen from landing in hong k9ong

-paris peace conference recognizes japan’s claim of Shandong peninsula

-First United Front

-Sun yet sen unites with the communist party to get rid of the warlords to get the support of the soviet union

-soviet union urges ccp to join the nationalists in a united front in the national revolution to get rid of the warlords

-communist party promise the soviets to not promote communism until the warlords are gone

-Sun yet sen believes that the communist order cannot accept communism, and sun yet sen agrees for help with the soviets

-soviet send advisors to china to help[ sun yet sen reorganize the party and rearm the party

-chiang kaishek sent to the soviet union to study the soviet military system

-nationalist party campaign to subdue the warlords in china

-communist and nationalist start to have a sense of nationalism to get rid of the warlords

-popular support for the northern expeditions

-chinese bankers and industrialists support a national but not a social revolutions, but they do not want communism

-white terror: chiang kaishek searches out and kills union members and ccp aprty organizer members at the end...