No.6,2020

Deeply Understand and Grasp the Important Basis forChinato Enter into a New Stage of Development

Chen Li（ 5 ）

Building a Moderately Prosperous Society in an All-round Way and Solving Relative Poverty

Li Haijin（17）

The Revolutionary Road of Local Students During the May 4th Period: A Case Study of the Nanchang Reconstruction Society and Its Group Life

Yu Haibing（24）

Assisting the Rise of the “Ism Era”: The Position, Promotion, and Reading of China Youth （1923-1927）

Qu Jun（44）

The Washington System, the Anti-imperialist Movement, and the Embryo of the Great Revolution

Ma Jianbiao（67）

An Analysis of the CPC’s Mechanism to Transmit Documents （1927-1931）

Li Li（85）

The Roles of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army in the CPC’s Strategy to Transform the “Development of Central China”

Li Leibo（103）

The Entanglement of the Event and  its Narration: Restudying the Polyphony of the “May 4th Movement”

Luo Zhitian（119）

Changes in the Political Environment on Campuses After the Reversal of the Situation Between the KMT and the CPC: A Case Study of Zhejiang University

Pan Jianhua（134）

The Potential of History: Reading Discovering History Based on Ideas: Research on China After the “May 4th Movement”

Huang Daoxuan（147）

Anti Japanese War Literature Data Platform and Innovations in the Direction and Possibilities for Research by the Chinese Communist Party on the History of the Anti-Japanese War

Luo Min（152）

A Summary of the Symposium on Engels′ 200th Birthday 

Academic Department of Scientific Research and Planning Department（160）

The Revolutionary Road of Local Students During the May 4th Period:

A Case Study of the Nanchang Reconstruction Society and Its Group Life

Yu Haibing

Abstract:

During the May 4th period, student societies played an important role throughout the country for those students who were participating in the revolution. From the perspective of their group life, this article discusses the process by which local students became more organized，more doctrinal, and more revolutionary. In the case of the Nanchang Reconstruction Society, the society underwent three stages of organizing and upgrading of autonomy, action, and revolution. The students gathered together as they became stimulated by a crisis of consciousness and by their  own imaginations about the new society. In the end, they introduced an “ism” into their group life, which realized the revolutionization of the society.  They then brought the revolution back to their hometowns, which promoted the establishment of local party organizations and societies. At the same time, the organizational experience and dilemmas of the reconstruction society continued in the organizational life of the local society.  This continuity is an important clue for investigating the rise of the local CPC revolution in the 1920s.

 Assisting the Rise of the “Ism Era”: The Position, Promotion, and Reading of China Youth (1923-1927)

Qu Jun

Abstract:

As the central authority’s periodical of the Chinese Socialist Youth League and the Chinese Communist Youth League, from 1923 to 1927 China Youth was not only a symbolic propaganda material for the promotion and expansion of the CPC revolution but also an important catalyst for Chinese society to transition from the “new culture era” to the “ism era.” From this perspective, the position, promotion, and reading of China Youth deserves closer examination in order to explore the political positioning of publications of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Communist Youth League and the political mobilization implemented under this positioning, the methods, processes, and effects of their promotion throughout the country, a series of issues such as the development, mechanism, and response within and outside the organization, and so forth. Based on an analysis of these issues, it is possible to discover the reasons why the CPC was “skilled in negotiations” and to more  accurately understand the continuities and differences of the CPC mode of propaganda during this period.

The Washington System, the Anti-imperialist Movement, and the Embryo of the Great Revolution

Ma Jianbiao

Abstract:

From 1922 to 1925, America realized that if the Washington system failed to fulfill its promises to revise the China treaty, it would inevitably arouse the anger of the Chinese Nationalists. Because of the “shortcomings” of France, Washington’s principle of “coordination among the great powers” encountered obstacles and eventually the opportunity to please the Chinese Nationalists was lost. But this opportunity was successfully seized by the Soviet government. In 1924, the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations with the Beijing government and in the same year it promoted cooperation between the KMT and the Communist Party, laying a foundation for the anti-imperialist movement. The model of the Shanghai anti-imperialist movement, formed on the basis of the May 30th massacre, successfully spurred a nationwide anti-imperialist movement by relying on “emotional power.” The secret to the “success” of the anti-imperialist movement lies in the huge political mobilization potential of the massacre.

An Analysis of the CPC’s Mechanism to Transmit Documents (1927-1931)

Li Li

Abstract:

As a carrier of information within the party, the transmission of documents is closely related to the state of party organization  From 1927 to 1931, the CPC did not experience any breakthroughs in the transmission of documents from a technological level, but it faced many pressures. At the same time, the CCP adopted a step-by-step document issuance method, which enabled party organizations at all levels to have a greater influence on the document issuance process. Under such circumstances, the CPC’s document issuance method centered on the central and provincial party committees. As a Leninist political party, the CPC regarded the issuance of documents as an important way for the party to transmit the instructions of the Central Committee and to unite the organization. Therefore, there were tensions between the organizational requirements for the issuance of documents and the actual conditions, which affected the integration of the whole party  It was not until 1931 that changes in various factors caused changes in the CPC’s document issuance mechanism.

The Roles of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army in the CPC’s  Strategy to Transform the “Development of Central China”

Li Leibo

Abstract:

The CPC put forward the strategy of “developing Central China” at its Sixth Plenary Session. At that time, so-called “Central China” referred to the wide district between the Yellow River and the Yangzi River, with Henan province at the center.  It could be divided militarily into three centers, the district between the new and old Yellow rivers, the Hubei-Henan-Anhui border areas, and the Hubei-Henan-Shanxi border areas. The initial plan was that the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army would go east to the Hebei-Shandong border areas, and then go south to the east Henan area “between the old and new Yellow Rivers” to develop, together with Peng Xuefeng, guerrilla warfare in central China. The positioning of the New Fourth Army was to establish a foothold south of the Yangzi River as well as to develop guerrilla warfare in the Fujian-Guangdong-Jiangxi border area. However, due to major changes in KMT-CPC relations in early 1939, the Eighth Route Army suspended its move to the south and the New Fourth Army established the North Yangzi River Headquarters, thus providing strategic space for the development of central China. In this situation, the Central Committee promoted its central China strategy, with the North Yangzi River Headquarters as the center. Thereafter, the New Fourth Army gradually replaced the Eighth Route Army in playing a leading role in the “development of central China”.

The Entanglement of the Event and  its Narration: Restudying the Polyphony of the “May 4th Movement”

Luo Zhitian

Abstract:

The May 4th Movement is a special event that has been celebrated,, remembered, and interpreted. The movement took place without any plan, and it was gradually formed based on its development. During this process that it gradually took shape, the event itself and its narration became entangled.. In either a broad or a narrow sense,  the May 4th Movement was not a self-contained system. It had both spontaneous and planned features, but regardless it was highly complicated. This colorful history led to a diversification of understandings about this event. It was a polyphonic movement, in which the different sounds were independent but integrated to establish greater harmony. The changing historical events require the development of understanding, and the rich historical events need multiple understandings, which should show both the “common view” and also all the special “private views,” thus expressing the polyphony of the movement.

Changes in the Political Environment on Campuses After the Reversal of the Situation Between the KMT and the CPC: A Case Study of Zhejiang University

Pan Jianhua

Abstract:

During the later period of the War of Liberation, along with the offensive and defensive changes on the battlefield between the KMT and the CPC, the balance of power between the two on campuses was gradually reversed. Based on a study of Zhejiang University, this article studies the development of CPC power at the university during the War of Liberation against the background of the political confrontation between the KMT and CPC on campus, the position of the school, and the resultant political environment.  By examining the impact of these changes on the political attitudes of teachers and students, we can deepen our understanding of the multi-faceted history of the War of Liberation as well as the history of student movements in China.