The Failure of Nanjing Government

The Nanjing Government refers to the Nationalist Government ruled by Chiang Kai Shek from 1928 to 1937.During this period, the Nanjing Government was hard to enjoy a day of peace because it was facing"internal troubles and external invasion"(nei-yu wai-huan). The Nanjing Government did done some progress in the fields of finance, communication, industrial development and education which were benefit to the next generation. However, the new political system which Nanjing Government tried to attempt still regarded as an "abortive revolution" mainly because of the negligence of social and economic reform and the inefficiency of the five institutions.

The national unification achieved by the Northern Expedition. Before the Northern Expedition, GMD realized that their military power was weak so they decided to negotiate with the northern warlords in order to gain support from them and absorbed them into GMD. But the cost was GMD should confirm their semi-independent regional status. These warlords we called them "new warlord". However, these new warlords lacked of the sense of national commitment and the welfare of the general. They maintained a large army of territorial aggrandizement as well as for self-protection; collectively, they drained a good portion of country's meager resources desperately needed for national construction.

In the other hand, the middle class(e.g. merchants, traders, businessmen) were act as loan sharks in the villages. They noticed that they gain more interest from the existing order so that they resisted any quick change or policy which done by the Nanjing Government.

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