...Brian G. Martin Abstract The complex relationship that developed between Du Yuesheng's Shanghai Green Gang group and the Guomindang regime in the mid-1930s provides useful insights into the nature of the Nanjing government's rule and, in particular, into the manner it exercised power in its...

...John Fitzgerald The Politics of Depoliticization in Republican China: Guomindang Policy Toward Student Political Activism, 1927–1949 . By Huang Jianli . Bern and New York : Peter Lang . 1996 . xi, 242 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Paul Bailey Schools into Fields and Factories: Anarchists, the Guomindang and the National Labor University in Shanghai 1927–1932 . By Ming K. Chan and Arif Dirlik . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 1991 . 339 pp. $47.50. 882 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Indeed, given...

...Joyce A. Madancy Opium, State, and Society: China's Narco-Economy and the Guomindang, 1924–1937 . By Edward R. Slack Jr . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2000 . ix, 240 pp. $59.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 846...

...Gregor Benton Abstract In January 1941 Guomindang forces crushed a New Fourth Army (NFA) column under Xiang Ying and Ye Ting, which had just missed a deadline to get north of the Yangzi River. The Guomindang and the Communist center in Yan'an both wanted Xiang in the north, each for its own reasons...

... Communist party (CCP) and the Guomindang (GMD) after 1941, the Communists focused sharply on the atrocities committed by Juntong and portrayed Dai Li as a monstrous instrument of Chiang Kai-shek's dictatorship. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 List of References...

... local bases. This essay is an exploration of the contours of revolutionary change in the half-century from 1900 to 1950 in Xiaoshan County, Zhejiang Province, a county in the Lower Yangzi region that was for most of this period in the Guomindang, not the Communist sphere (map 1). Copyright ©...

... carefully calculated praise from critics and publicists within, but it was not a promising area for critical scholarship. Michael Sullivan's pioneering survey, Chinese Art in the Twentieth Century , London and Berkeley, 1959—strong on developments in the later Guomindang period when he was in China...

... Guomindang Japan journalism Korea Lu Xun Sin Ŏnjun Tong'a Ilbo I have long heard the name of Lu Xun, ‘the great Oriental writer’ born in China. However, I never had an opportunity to meet him. My impression of him, based on my reading of his writings and novels, was that of a cold-blooded...

.... The Guomindang lost control of China because its armies lost, first to the Japanese and then to the Communists. The Communists came to power not because their ideology appealed to the people, but because their conventional (not guerrilla) armies triumphed in large, set-piece battles. These are important...

...Brian DeMare The conflict between the ideals of rural reformers and the dictates of the Guomindang state reached a breaking point over the issue of rural self-governance. This was a long-held goal for the countryside, but in practice the balance between village self-rule and the national...

... Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 VOL. XLV, N O . 4 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES AUGUST 1986 Abstracts The South Anhui Incident GREGOR BENTON Pages 681-720 In January 1941 Guomindang forces crushed a New Fourth Army (NFA) column under Xiang Ying and Ye Ting, which had...

... members of Chiang Kai-shek's Guomindang Army fled into Shan areas of Burma, where divisions between ethnic minorities and the majority Bamar ethnicity that had been exacerbated under British rule prevented state consolidation after independence. Chinese Communist Party concern over Guomindang troops...

... and material wealth through local taxation and investment. Beginning her study with an excellent detailed picture of the environmental context, Chauncey traces the role of the local school circles as they were involved in dialogue with warlord provincial regimes, the Guomindang, and the Communist Party. She...

... Xiaogang Lai, a former soldier of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), looks in this book at the role Shandong played between 1937 and 1945 in shaping the conflict between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Guomindang. His primary sources are annotated wartime documents published...

... with Tokyo. Zou added writers Hu Yu-zhi famed for his fiery anti-Japanese columns and Du Zhongyuan an industrialist from Mukden who had fled when Japanese occupied that city to his staff. The journal published numerous letters attacking the Guomindang's line of nonresistance. Zou came into contact with Song...

... in the Guomindang and the rise of the Chinese Communist party are treated dispassionately (this statement is based on an inspection of the entire manuscript and is of course most germane to the later sections). The Chronology is, in short, a work of exemplary scholarship. A number of published chronologies exist...

... Qing and the "governing elites" of the Guomindang and their Communist allies in the early Republic. The late Qing merchants embraced an idea of "society" (qun or shehui) that was undifferentiated and that they claimed to represent and even to embody. These merchants after the Revolution organized...

... subjugation") and villains (the landlords, who "objectively . . . were exploiters" [p. 13], and what Thaxton dubs "the Guomindang warlord regime The Guomindang's leadership, he protests, "was committed to expanding by plunder" (p. 55). Furthermore, he charges, its policies impaired trade and industry (p. 52...

..., but otherwise the book is well crafted and thoughtfully illustrated. CHAS MCKHANN Whitman College Opium, State, and Society: China's Narco-Economy and the Guomindang, 1924 1937. By E D W A R D R. SLACK, J R . Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000. ix, 240 pp. $59.00 (cloth); $29-95 (paper). Long...