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... This chapter traces how anti-Communist groups that coalesced within the Chinese Nationalist Party during the 1923–27 United Front period in Canton transformed into fascist organizations known as the Blue Shirts and CC Clique during the 1927–37 Nanjing Decade. It identifies ways in which...

... Shirts strove to cement, and why the officers and engineers who led these state-affiliated groups regarded the resuscitation of an ancient Confucian culture to be integral to the creation of a thoroughly modernized and militantly anti-Communist nation. It further sketches the relationship between...

... This chapter traces the role of nativist discourse in the anti-Communist campaigns waged by the Nationalist military in the early 1930s. Focusing on training materials produced by the Blue Shirts, as well as magazines published for the edification and enjoyment of counterinsurgency soldiers...

... This chapter examines how the Blue Shirts and CC Clique worked to create nationalist literature and arts ( minzu wenyi ) and how they understood literature and the arts as key vehicles for the consolidation of new social meanings. It further examines how the terror that they waged against left...