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Some Economic Documents Relating to the Genesis of the Japanese-Sponsored Regime in North China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

T. K. Koo
Affiliation:
National Library of Peiping
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Japan's ambitions on the Asiatic mainland are now a matter of history. The Kwantung Army and the South Manchurian Railway Co. wished to repeat the achievements of the East India Co. One rattled the sword while the other worked with facts and figures, in order to lay the foundation for an empire. They had great achievements to their credit, and final success eluded them only because the whole world was against them.

When the Kwantung Army created the “Manchurian Incident” of September 18, 1931, it undoubtedly wanted some sort of change in China's Northeast, though it is doubtful that it had at that time fully set the course of the action that it took during the ensuing months. Finding things easy, it decided to feel its way into North China. Early in 1933 it went into Jehol and then crossed the Great Wall, the adventure ending in the Tangku Truce of May 31, 1933. In 193S it forced the Chinese Government to remove General Yü Hsüeh-chung and his troops from Hopei, to close down Kuomintang Party headquarters in North China, and to dissolve the Peiping Political Council. But by that time the Japanese militarists had already set their hearts on an “autonomous” North China under their control.

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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1946

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References

1 Shina jutungun shireibu, i.e., Headquarters of the China Garrison, but it is more convenient to refer to it as the Headquarters of the Japanese Army in North China.

2 Mtmtctsu keizai chosakai: Hokushi keizai chosa yoko ansha. October 25, 1934. 45 p.

3 Shina keizai chosa iinkai ni kansuru ken (gensho hokoku). February 1935.

4 Hokushi chosahan no keigyo kachi wo shu to suru kenkyu oyobi chosa komoku ichiranhyo. July 3, 1935.

5 Kcicho tenshinhan chosa jiko ichiranhyo. July 4, 1935, 1 f.

6 Ko shukutakuhan no soshiki oyobi chosa yoko. September 6, 1935. 5 ff.

7 Keizaijo yori kosatsushitaru kahoku jichi seifu no jishutaiki saisei kakuritsu no kanosei; narabi ni jichi seifu to shina scifu to no seiji keizai kankei no ktmpon gensoku (shian). October 15, 1935. 11 p. Please note that the distinctly Chinese term kahoku is used for the North China government.

8 Kahoku jichi seifu no zaisei keikahisho (shisei daiichi nendo sai shutsunyu yosansho). October 15,1935. 37 p.

9 Hokushi hsin zaisei seisaku. October 15, 1935. 12 ff.

10 Ko shukutakuhan daiichihan: Hokushi tsuka kinyu ni uisuru sochi yoko. October, 1935. 7 ff.

11 Hokushi jishu heisei shiko ktikaku koryo. Dainiji an. February 22, 1936. 15 pp.

12 Ki satsu jishu heisei shiko keikaku koryoan (ki satsu seikin ni taisuru ttian). May 15, 1936. 7 ff.

13 Jikyoku ni tomonau shina heisei josei hantan. December 15, 1936. 6 pp.

14 Shanhai zaikai no akuka. October 28, 1935. (A telegram of five pages from Shanghai.)