Fleeting Embers: Anti-Radical Groups in post-May Thirtieth Shanghai

UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
Austin Spinosa (Creator)
Institution
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Advisor
James Anderson

Abstract: This project details three political organizations that sprang up during the late 1920s in the city of Shanghai, China: the Constitutional Defence League, the Shanghai Publicity Bureau, and the Shanghai Fascisti. All three groups were ran by foreign expatriates and represented a fear held by foreign Shanghai as the city (and China proper) became rife with nationalistic and radical fervor, particularly after the anti-foreign May Thirtieth Movement in 1925. Intro provides an brief overview of Shanghai's foreign settlements, the May Thirtieth Incident and Movement, the Northern Expedition, and what prior scholarship has written about foreign Shanghai, the foreign communities that lived there, and the residents (Shanghailanders). Body of work goes into each group with their own sections. Each group's foundations, leaders, and differing rhetoric and ideals are espoused, as well as the appeal each group had in Shanghai and beyond. Conclusion explains the similarities and differences between all three groups, and how each group represents a palpable fear over change in China.

Additional Information

Publication
Honors Project
Language: English
Date: 2023
Keywords
shanghai, china, britain, japan, may thirtieth, northern expedition, hankou, anticommunism, guomindang, kuomintang, CCP, CPC, chinese communists, communism, foreign expatriates, Shanghailanders, Shanghai Municipal Council, fascism, International Settlement, Opium Wars, Shanghai Municipal Police, British concessions, the Bund, expatriates, GMD, KMT, Chiang Kai-shek, Jiang Jieshi, chinese nationalism

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