Stranahan, Patricia, “Strange Bedfellows: the Communist Party and Shanghai's Elite in the National Salvation Movement” (1992)

Title : “Strange Bedfellows: the Communist Party and Shanghai's Elite in the National Salvation Movement”

Author(s) : Stranahan, Patricia

Year : 1992

Type : Journal article

Subject : History

Keywords : political;party

Journal : China Quarterly

Number : 129

Start page : 26

End page : 51

Language:Name : English

Support : Print

Abstract : Cut off from contact with the Chinese Communist Party leadership, the Shanghai Party developed its own united front as a survival device. By joining the burgeoning National Salvation Movement the Party gained contact with the Shanghai elite and developed an anti-Japanese line. Following the Xian Incident and the beginning of the war in 1937, the National Salvation Movement found a new enemy in the foreign-dominated Shanghai Municipal Council and a new area of operation among the many refugees fleeing into the International Settlement.