In China between the years 1925 to 1950 myriad changes were occurring. Chinese peasants and the Chinese Communist Party joined forces against Japan. During the time 1925 to 1950 in China, relationships between the Communist Party and the peasants grew through the defense against a common enemy, mutual support, and the establishment of equality. The Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese peasants had a common hatred for the Japanese abiding in China who had invaded their territory. Both groups found it necessary to defend themselves from the Japanese. The Communist Party had began to attempt to persuade the peasants to join them in their fight against the Japanese. Document 2 is an excerpt from a conversation between a grandson and grandfather discussing the difference between the past problems and the …show more content…
The grandson explains why joining the Communists in defense was not shameful, but patriotic. Document 4 is a report by the Chinese Communists depicting what the Japanese have been doing to the country. This report indirectly justifies reasons to join the Communists who are defending against the Japanese attacks. Document 6 is an account from a member of the land reform task force explaining how and why the peasants challenged their landlords and moneylenders. This movement was caused by the resistance against Japan and the new-found abilities of the peasants because of the Communists. The author of document 4, the Chinese Communists, most likely made this report to gain the support of the peasants. Although the peasants probably knew what Japan had done, seeing the actual amount may have caused the peasants to greatly consider joining the resistance against Japan. An additional document from a Japanese person who saw the growing relationships between the Communists
Much like in Japan when Matthew Perry of the United States came in and insisted in having Japan open up its ports to diplomatic and commercial relations with the US, and since the shogun felt he had no other option, he complied with Perry’s order. As the westerners had their way with both east Asian nations, the threat of western industrialization became a reality, and due to the amount of hunger and economic depression in their societies, their people began to crave industrialization seeing the amount of success in the western societies that were industrialized. There began to be an increased amount of rebellion, and a fight for change in these two nations, but the results that came from these rebellions and the main argument for these rebellions differed.
The Chinese communist party had a great influence on the peasants, this sparked a sense of nationalism between the two classes this is shown in documents 1 and 2. Mao Zedong stated in document 1 that “peasants will rise like a mighty storm” and that “they will smash all chains that bind them and rush forward along the road to liberation”. Here Zedong’s tone is intimidating and determined. Zedong shows confidence in the peasants and their abilities
Originally, Liang’s “parents were deeply involved in all the excitement of working to transform China into a great Socialist country” (4). Over a serious of unfortunate events, though, he became the child of a “Rightist’s cap” mother and a “Reactionary Capitalist stinking intellectuals” father (9, 51). Impacted by the shattering of his family and horrific bloodshed created by fighting, Liang Heng began to question the Cultural Revolution. He claimed that his “family had scarified so much… but it had given [them] nothing in return” (148). Liang Heng presents his shift in ideology to demonstrate that most Chinese were no longer in support of a Communist nation. His “troubles were common enough and anyone could see there was a discrepancy between the glorious words of the newspapers and [their] painful reality (232). Even Liang Heng’s father, after many years of devotion, found that he could no longer defend the Party’s policies after he experienced the ill-treatment of the peasants in the country
In 1927 the rising leader of the Chinese Communist party was acknowledging that soon the upsurge of peasant rebellion was soon, and that will soon rise up and overpower the wealthy landowning class. (DOC 1). In 1941 a Japanese official report had noted that due to extreme similarities between the peasants and local communist guerrilla unit. These
Between the years of 1927 and 1949 in China two warring sides, China’s Communist Party and China’s Nationalist Party, clashed. Although the two parties had previously worked together in the United Front against Japan when Japan tried to invade, their temporary alliance was dropped as soon as the invasion was over. Halting only for a brief period when Japan attempted to invade a second time in 1936 to form the Second United Front, the two parties resumed fighting after the invasion was over in 1945, and only stopped hostilities when the Communist party drove out the Nationalist party to Taiwan and other islands. This war brought China into a new era under a communist government, the People’s Republic of China. Massive reform and change would
When you hear people talking about the Great Depression you automatically know what they’re talking about, and all of the things that you learned about that time come to mind. The reason I choose this topic is because, I know a little about it but would like to learn even more about the topic. The things that the people really went through, the struggle, pain, etc. During my research, I will look into these topics of the era to have a better understanding and then maybe compare it to modern time today.
In document 1 Mao Zedong says “ several hundred million peasants wilol rise like a mi9ghty storm, like a hurricane a force so swift and violent that no power however great will be able to hiold back”. Thi is an example of the communists reconizing the chinease peasants strengths and informing other people that peasants that support the communists will sweep imperilaists, warlords, corrupt officials, local tyrants, and evil landdowers down and take authority. The communsits wanted to use the peasants as the main force un their fight against the jaanese. Document 5 is also a good example of communists reconizing that the peasants where the fuel to their fight woth japan, “ recognize that peasants constitiute the basi strength of the anti Japanese war, accordingly it is the policy of the part to assisit the peasaent, reduce feudal exploitation by the land lords, support civili liberty, political right and economic rights of the peasants in order to improve their living conditions and enhance the anti Japanese war”. This is a good example of the Comminsts supporting the chinease in order to gain their support for the fight against the Japanese, they might have only given support in order to gain power of japan and become the ruling power in china. The relashonship betweent eh chinease and the communists wwas beneficial but over all fake because
After three years and five months of being in the internment camp, the family was finally sent home to their house, but many folks and parents had a new perspective on how they saw them to be. First of all, when arriving to the house none of the neighbors had gone out of their way to go out and greet them personally. They all just stared from their windows or as they passed each other on the street. A huge factor of the people living there saw Japanese-Americans as the enemy because of the war and Pearl Harbor. Therefore, there were times where even going to the store was a hassle because of the quick glances that everyone gave them and the question about whether they were Japanese or Chinese. After a while the kids found ways to lessen to
As presented, Japanese-Americans, no matter if they participated and contributed to society, were discriminated against in a manner similar to the way that Americans of African, Chinese, and Latino descent were. It was largely believed that anti-Japanese ideology stemmed from earlier, anti-Chinese agitation that began to occur following California’s gold rush in the 1850s (Conrat, 16) This lax form of discrimination worsened after the attacks on Pearl Harbor.
The Chinese Communist Party took control of the government in 1949, after defeating the Nationalist party and its un-communist policies, laws, and views. During this time period WWII was also going on bringing with it new ideas and technologies that changed China for better or worse. With this change the peasant class experienced a major shift in rights, power, and influence. The Chinese Communist Party and the peasant class between circa 1925 and circa 1950 had a relationship that greatly benefited both sides, the Chinese Communist Party empowered the peasants and advocated for social and economic equality which strengthened the anti-japanese viewpoint and instilled a sense of nationalism.
In my own personal option, the 1950’s would have been a wonderful time to experience. The economy was growing during this time. I agree with the author’s evidence and thoughts on the economy. For example, the author discusses the great purchasing power of young families and the generosity of federal assistance programs. Compared to today, during the 1950’s it was much easier for a family to purchase a house and the monthly payment was a small percent of their income. From personal experience, it can be quite a task to purchase a home as a young adult. I used a federal program to purchase my home. During that time, our military was larger. This meant more veterans were receiving a GI Bill and this resulted in a high percentage of soldiers
Chapter 3 further illustrates how Japan displayed as an underlying basis of support and motivation for the Chinese who advocates in political revolution to continue their political schema. Policy set by the Britain to provide assistance to those who could maintain China’s unity has contributed to the appointment of Yuan Shikai as the leader of the Republic of China. This newly developed political system has endured through the political turmoil in the 1910s and 1920s, predominantly due to the fact that the major Western nations were preoccupied and destabilized by the World War 1, as mentioned in Chapter
June 25th the Korean war began its three year conflict with North Korea. In the 1950s the first colored television was invented by a man named Peter Carl Goldmark. The 1950s was the decade for books and literature. One of the first books to come out was called The Cat In The Hat. How do books and literature from the 1950s impact us today? Books and literature in the 1950s impacts us today because they have become more straightforward and it expresses anything like never before.
And even the Japanese operation against the Communists had opposite effect, because Three All Campaign’s aimed at turning people against the Communists by burning down their villages and crops, murdering the peasants made the peasants hate the Japanese even more and help the Communists attack them. The Japan-China war was a great success of the Communists because, by 1945, they controlled eighteen ‘liberation areas’ in the countryside. Invariably it was the Reds to whom the Japanese submitted.
Throughout the history of China, the civil strife in China had marked a significant event. With two parties established; the Nationalist known as Kuomintang (KMT) and the Communist known as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), conflicts between them began to erupt due to their difference in beliefs when CCP began to question to morality of democracy and capitalism. This led to the Chinese Civil War (1945-1949). Although many see that, “early in the civil war it looked as though the Nationalists might prevail. They controlled key cities, their well-equipped troops far outnumbered Communist troops, and they had support from the United States,” (Tamura 180) the outcome of the war was not what everyone thought to be due to many