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- Title
An Incomplete Party-State: Zhou Fohai and the Creation of the Collaborationist Wang Jingwei Government in 1940.
- Authors
Martin, Brian G.
- Abstract
This article discusses Zhou Fohai's crucial role in the creation of the Wang Jingwei collaborationist state in 1939-1940. It analyses his commitment to the structures, symbols and rituals of the pre-war Guomindang Party-State, and his belief that the Wang Jingwei regime was merely the continuation of that Guomindang state. Zhou argued that the collaborationist state must be a Guomindang-style National Government based on Sun Yatsen's Three Principles of the People, recognising the key-role of the Guomindang political party and flying the Guomindang national flag. To achieve this externally, he needed to maintain overtures to the Chongqing Guomindang government, as he regarded the role of the two governments as complementary, and a genuine partnership with the Japanese. Both proved problematic. Neither Chongqing nor key elements of the Japanese political and military elite endorsed Zhou's concept of "a comprehensive peace", and, by 1941, his frustrations with both were clearly manifest. This frustration was only heightened by the fact that an increasing number of senior members of the Wang Jingwei government itself failed to support his view of "a comprehensive peace" and his approach to the Chongqing government.
- Subjects
COLLABORATIONISTS (Traitors); POLITICAL science; UNIT construction; SIGNS &; symbols; WANG Jingwei
- Publication
Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies / Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung, 2021, Vol 44, p133
- ISSN
0170-0006
- Publication type
Article