CHINA AFTER 7 YEARS OF WAR
Chuan, Dr. Chen Ping
CHINA AFTER 7 YEARS OF WAR 1. National Unity; Problems of taxation, Industry, ana Education By Dr. Chen Ping Chuan THE day of the "double-ten" has just passed—the tenth day of the tenth month,...
...the food supply is inadequate and production of military equipment is falling behind schedule...
...First let me say that I am very optimistic about the prospects of Chinese resistance to Japan, as well as for reconstruction after the Japanese arc defeated...
...Toward Greater National Unity UflTH the Japanese invasion, all the student* of the coastal provinces, where the large universities were situated, had to go inland—on foot...
...The effectiveness of guerrilla warfare behind Japanese lines is constantly increasing...
...Thus there is a huge civilian force cutting their supply lines and in every way hampering their work...
...then their collapse will lie rapid...
...War bond drives are successful...
...The quality of their fighting forces deteriorates day by day, in morale and in equipment...
...This is bad for morale, especially after they have collected a certain amount of spoils of war...
...Their policy of butchering civilians wholesale has engendered tremendous hostility in the occupied areas, with growing underground opposition...
...For all these reasons and others, the Japanese have lost their chance to win, afid the Chinese position is improving, so that we may look forward to decisive changes for the better in the near future...
...There was a sharp separation between provinces, between parties, and between social groups, before the invasion, with corresponding differences in ideas, and even mutual hostility...
...Those who spoke different dialects are learning a common language...
...Our confidence in rapid victory is growing...
...Thus the unity of the nation is being forged, with a common purpose, effective cooperation, and concentration on national welfare and strength for the task of defending ourselves against Japanese aggression, and building a democratic future...
...Within the family, the women and girls of even the wealthiest families had to do their own work—shopping, preparing meals, washing clothes...
...Whereas formerly one village hardly communicated with andther, now barriers have broken down...
...The Japanese forces are too fur extended and spread over too much territory...
...Many of the students, scholars, teachers, and other persons of the "wealthy clasaes are now working in the factories, shops, and doing other manual work which they formerly despised as menial...
...Chen Ping Cbuon...
...they were forced into the army by the military regime...
...This has not only given them a broader viewpoint on sOtial problems, but it has benefited them physically...
...now men are eager to join the army...
...They cannot replace fast enough the caaualties they suffer...
...From now until Japan is driven from our soil, there will be daily improvement...
...Since the war began, almost seven years ago, the government has had very difficult financial problems, in Dr...
...The army is imbued with the highest morale and fighting spirit...
...Cooperation such as now exists was unthought of...
...The Japanese seem intent on gathering as much booty as possible, not for their government, but for themselves...
...Most of it comes in by air, but although the Burma Road is closed, there are still four land routes over which supplies are being brought in...
...Neither airplanes nor pilots' can tie sent to replace all those being destroyed...
...Since the war, everyone has made Macrifices for national unity against the common enemy...
...Another remarkable social result of the war is that Chinese of various provinces now feel a common unity...
...The quality also of material is deteriorating...
...the first ! ot whose articles we present \ this week, it fanh Supervisor of j China and the President of Can ton University, which ho founded In 1*24...
...a third comes into Sinkiang from Russia...
...They also got their first experience with manual labor...
...Another road is being developed by the American and Chinese armies, from India just north-wesfof the Burma Road...
...The increasing burden of taxation to pay for the war is borne rheerfully...
...Girls are proud to marry soldiers...
...Chen Ping Chuan THE day of the "double-ten" has just passed—the tenth day of the tenth month, anniversary of Chinese independence—and it seems an appropriate occasion to set down some observations of conditions in war-torn China...
...the fourth is through India and through Afghanistan into Russia, where it joins the third route...
...I am not a military man, but 1 am sure that the strength of our armed forces is steadily growing, and that they are led by very competent strategists...
...There is one road from Darjeeling into Tibet...
...Furthermore, the icsourees and reserves of Japan are insufficient, and will eventually be exhausted...
...Production in Japan is not keeping pace with the needs of the army...
...Better acquaintance and understanding between people of the various provinces has led to the adoption of something approaching a uniform national way of ' life...
...Never has there been such patriotism in China...
...Business men, students, professionals, and others, traveling as never before, carry with them this common culture, and bring to inland peasants knowledge of other ideas and customs...
...f inane lof Problems OOLDIERS were traditionally de-spised...
...This university it now carrying on its work in the interior of China, whither its 5.000 students marched, with their essential equipment, at the time : of the Japanese invasion...
...This is true even for the peasants in isolated interior villages...
...a second comes from North India into Sinkiang...
...In addition to an increasing amount of war material which we can manufacture ourselves, imports from abroad, especially from the United States, are steadily growing...
...Generalissimo Chiang-Kai-shek, the Minister of War, the Minister of Training, and the General staff are all men who inspire the highest confidence...
...The Japanese are fighting reluctantly, far from home...
...In the most isolated village*, little children sing the national anthem...
Vol. 27 • February 1944 • No. 7
