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Chinese war of resistance against japanese Aggression
and the Chinese people involved

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the chinese peopLe united and supported everywhere
Initiated by the CPC, the Anti-Japan United Front was established on the basis of coop-
eration between CPC and Kuomintang(KMT) with participation of people from all walks of
life. The nation-wide resistance war against Japanese aggressors swept the land, and wrote a
brilliant chapter in Chinese history.
The late Chairman Mao Zedong once pointed out that during the Resistance War against
Japanese Aggression, while officers and men of the Chinese armies fought at the battle
front, Chinese workers, peasants, intellectuals and businessmen were working in the rear
area and the overseas Chinese provide financial support for the war. All political parties,
except those reactionaries against the people, contributed as much to the war efforts as they
can”. –this best illustrated anti-Japan war, a war of the people and for national freedom and
independence.

the chinese peopLe in war rear area are invoLved totaLLy
Behind the battlefield of the Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army and Southern
China Guerrilla Forces, a vast ocean of people’s war formed, where different kinds of mili-
tary organizations are set up under CPC, including guerrillas groups on the plains, on the
railway lines and everywhere. People of old and young, men and women, joined the fight
against the invaders in different ways and in different tactics. With their own wisdom, the
Chinese people have worked a miracle in the world military history. And kept the Japanese
army busy dealing with emergencies that the Japanese aggressors got deeply drowned in the
vast ocean of the people’s war.
After the war, Yamazaki Jusaburo, former staff officer at Japanese army headquarters,
wrote for a military magazine that the CPC’s guerrilla war “adopted the offensive strategy of
mobilizing the masses nation-wide to fight a common enemy. It mobilized everyone in the
country, old and young, men and women, and inspired the masses to defend their country
and the people. The strong dynamic force to fight the enemy gathered from the whole nation
brushed aside the million-strong Imperial Army… Japan was finally defeated.” 1

mobiLized and organization of the chinese peopLe are a must in
anti-japan war
The masses, if not mobilized and organized, are just like “a sheet of loose sand”.
Mao Zedong said that “the most profound source of the war power roots from the people”;

1 Maru magazine, 1965, no.12