Nationalist Decade
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Nationalist Decade (1927-37) Dates
18 April 1927
- Jiang Jieshi's Nanjing Nationalist government founded on
June 1928
- Reunification of china was 'achieved' in
- Jiang Jieshi's Nanjing Nationalist government founded on
June 1928
- Reunification of china was 'achieved' in
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Structure of Nanjing
Jiang both president and chairman of State Council
- Party and government interwoven
- Executive Yuan (gov)
- Legislative Yuan (parliament)
- Examination Yuan (Civil service appointments)
- Control Yuan (behaviour and standards in the bureaucracy)
- Jiang had 80 positions and informal through cliques
- Party and government interwoven
- Executive Yuan (gov)
- Legislative Yuan (parliament)
- Examination Yuan (Civil service appointments)
- Control Yuan (behaviour and standards in the bureaucracy)
- Jiang had 80 positions and informal through cliques
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Struggles of Nanjing + stats
Regionalism
- They only had control over 4 provinces, Central China
- 69.5k poor reports of GMD officials
- 23 occasions military pronvincial governors (former warlords) declared independence
Finance
- 80% of government spending towards military to protect their territory
- Inflation
- Peasants in Gansu paid 44 different taxes
- They only had control over 4 provinces, Central China
- 69.5k poor reports of GMD officials
- 23 occasions military pronvincial governors (former warlords) declared independence
Finance
- 80% of government spending towards military to protect their territory
- Inflation
- Peasants in Gansu paid 44 different taxes
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Nanjing's progress
- Created Central Bank of China, with 20/33 foreign concessions returned to China and become part of League of Nations
- Hundreds of Locomotives
- Thousands of kms roads built
- Hundreds of Locomotives
- Thousands of kms roads built
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New Life Movement 1934
- Intended to improve Chinese people and fith corruption
- Confucian virtues, social decency (li), honesty (lian), right conduct (yi), self-respect (qi)
- Hats worn straight, sit up right, all part of the rules
'... substituting a retreat to Confucius for an advance to Marx.'
- Soong Meiling
"aestheticized response to issues of social difference ... in which capitalist dynamism was cemented by feudalistic hierarchy."
- Rebecca E Karl
- Confucian virtues, social decency (li), honesty (lian), right conduct (yi), self-respect (qi)
- Hats worn straight, sit up right, all part of the rules
'... substituting a retreat to Confucius for an advance to Marx.'
- Soong Meiling
"aestheticized response to issues of social difference ... in which capitalist dynamism was cemented by feudalistic hierarchy."
- Rebecca E Karl
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Primary Quotes
"Can fascism save China? We answer yes... a wonderful medicine..."
Jiang Jeshi
Jiang Jeshi
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Negative Quotes
"The Chinese people groaned under a regime fascist in every quality except efficiency.'"
- Historian C.CP Effiency
"Transformations in China's political economy under the GMD were both less dramatic and more devastating than before."
- Rebecca E Karl, they were also influenced by the Great Depression
"was launched to infuse unity and uniformity into a fragmenting and ever more divisive social situation... cultivate obedient and, above all, productive modes of citizenship"
- Rebecca E Karl, NLM
- Historian C.CP Effiency
"Transformations in China's political economy under the GMD were both less dramatic and more devastating than before."
- Rebecca E Karl, they were also influenced by the Great Depression
"was launched to infuse unity and uniformity into a fragmenting and ever more divisive social situation... cultivate obedient and, above all, productive modes of citizenship"
- Rebecca E Karl, NLM
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Positive Quotes
"Stunning accomplishments from a position of unenviable weakness."
- William Kirby
- William Kirby