Title: The Battle For the Middle Forces Peaks: The Domestic Factors, 1947–48
Abstract: The chill of the winter of 1947–48 accompanied the chill on democratic activism in urban China after the disbanding of the Democratic League in early November. Although the League leadership would regroup in Hong Kong and adopt new forms of underground organization and a new political stance to reflect the intensified repression they faced as an "illegal group" under the Nationalist regime, the public influence, if not the organizing effectiveness, of the Democratic League would be diminished. Yet even with the suppression of those who had been the most openly active of the liberal middle forces since the end of World War II, new reform-minded actors who stood between Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Communists continued to emerge and take their places in the political arena. Among these newly emerging reformists, the most prominent were alienated members of the Nationalist Party itself.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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