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- Title
"Pre-Collaboration": The Political Activity and Influence of Chen Bijun in Wartime China, January 1938-May 1940.
- Authors
YICK, JOSEPH K. S.
- Abstract
Chen Bijun 陈璧君 (1891-1959) was the wife of Wang Jingwei 汪精卫 (1883-1944), who established a pro-Japanese regime in Nanjing 南京 (March 1940-August 1945) during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945. This puppet regime was the outcome of Wang's "Peace Movement" (Heping yundong 和平运动) that informally started in January 1938. Scholarly publications on Wang's "Peace Movement" and regime have predominately focused on male historical actors. Also, nationalistic themes have overpowered the theme of women as "active" agents (both positive and negative) in China's wartime history. This article attempts to expand knowledge of wartime Chinese collaboration and the historical role of women by surveying the important political activity and influence of Chen Bijun in her "pre-collaborationist" period: from January 1938 up to the beginning of her formal collaboration with the Japanese authorities in May 1940, when the collaborationist administrations in Guangdong 广东 province and especially its capital city of Guangzhou 广州 (Canton) were established. 2 Both the Guomindang 国民党 (GMD) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) viewed occupied Guangdong from May 1940 to August 1945 as Chen Bijun's personal power base or "small dynasty" (xiao wangchao 小王朝) in wartime China.
- Subjects
CHEN Bijun; WANG Jingwei; SINO-Japanese War, 1937-1945; PEACE movements; CHINESE Communist Party
- Publication
Southeast Review of Asian Studies, 2014, Vol 36, p58
- ISSN
1083-074X
- Publication type
Article