A Current of Anti-Japanese Sentiments : Anti-Japanese sentiment of Liberal Criticism

It was not only the intellectuals who had congregated in All-China Federation of National Salvation Association that called for the realization of resistance to Japan and democracy before "7・7" (i.e. "The Marco Polo Bridge Incident"). In the past studies, however, the public anti-Japanese movements, which had gathered into All-China Federation of National Salvation Association, have been mainly discussed. In the present work I would like to analize the anti-Japanese sentiments of Lo Lung-chi (羅隆基) and his fellows, who had close relation to The National Socialist Party (中国国家社会党), using Liberal Criticism (『自由評論』) as the basic material. The period investigated is that from the winter of 1935 to the autumn of 1936. The aim of this thesis is as follows: (1) to make clear the community between the anti-Japanese sentiments of All-China Federa tion of National Salvation Association and those of the intellectuals of the Liberal Criticism faction, and to demonstrate that this community brought about the gradual consolidation of several anti-Japanese movements into one after "9・18" (i.e. "The Manchurian Incident"); (2) to clarify the difference in opinion between All-China Federation of National Salvation Association and the intellectuals of the Liberal Criticism faction, and to point out that this explains the essential difference in their views as to the Chinese Revolution after the anti-Japanese resistance was over