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Nationalist Activity
- Faced by huge area of uncontrolled territory
- Tried negotiations, then launched wars against enemies
- Helped by
- Resources from base
- Foreign Aid
- Revenue from Maritime Customs Service
- Chiang in personal control
- Factions between Civil and Military
- Balanced so that he retained authority
- Reform in Urban China
- Education System
- Transportation and Communication Systems
- Decay in Rural China
- Heavy taxation
- Declining foreign markets for agricultural goods
Foreign Affairs
- Unequal treaties remain
- Japan
- Incursions into Manchuria (Sept 1931)
- But "Unity before resistance"
Communist Party Activity
- Set about creating 15 rural bases
- Culminated in Jiangxi Soviet 1931
- Mao's position is strengthened
- Mao advocated dissolution of United Front
- Official CCP line to accept Mao's judgement at face value
- Many historians now view it as possibly being influenced by
- Advocated rural rather than urban base
- Gained peasant support in areas controlled
- Personality
- Ferocious
- E.G: Futien incident 1930.
- While attempting to crush rival red army faction that were supposed GMD / Li Lisan Supporters, 3,000 officers executed.
- Given time to expand until 1934
- War around Shanghai 1932
- Japan 1931
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