On The Democratic League Reshuffle Cause In 1944

The China Democratic League was a political party with the characteristic of political alliance during the Anti-Japanese War, which was composed of the patriotic democrats majorly among the intellectuals and the national industrialists and merchants, and the patriotic overseas Chinese and other democrats, who demanded progressand improvement.In 1944, when the Anti-Japanese War was to end and succeed, facing the following important issues: constitutionalistic movement, the changes of the relationship between the Kuomintang(KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party(CCP), the efforts to a united government, and the peace negotiation before the civil war etc., the China Democratic League made the important decision to reshuffle itself on the crossroad of China's fate. Namely, the China Democratic League cancelled the group member system and permitted nonparty personages to join theleague in his or her own name, and the name was changed from the China Democratic Parties League into the China Democratic League. In addition, the new central committee members were elected, and the central leading structure was reorganized, which completely broke the situation under which the Young Party controlled the work in the league before. Thus was the Democratic League Reshuffle called by historians.The reshuffle reason of the China Democratic League has been gradually concerned in the intellectual world. Many research achivements regard "to enlarge organization and to absorb nonparty individuals"as the reshuffle cause. In fact, this should only be an aim or means of the League reshuffle. Why did the League enlarge its organization and absorb a large number of nonparty individuals in 1944? Why did so many nonparty individuals join the League to politick in 1944? The answers to these questions should be the resonable explanations of the League reshuffle.From some related personal explanations, documents and materials, it is proved that the reshuffle is both multilevel and interactively influential. Firstly, there was a conflict between the ideal that the Democratic League wanted to realize "true democracy"and the reality that the League was loosely organized and lacked the fighting capacity. Secondly, there were some outside factors, such as changes of the relationship between the KMT and the CCP in 1944, and the changed attitude to the Democratic League of the KMT and the CCP, which also pushed forward the reshuffle. Thirdly, in the late 40s of the 20th centurary, the increasingly politicking consciousness of manyintellectuals, national industrialists and merchants constituted the ideological basis. Lastly, the establishment and development of the Democratic League's branches (especially the KunMing Branch, in YunNan province)provided the fertile soil which made it possible for the Democratic League to accept the impact of the CCP and absorb individual members. On the other side, it pushed forward renewal of the Democratic League.From the analysis of the cause of the 1944 Democratic League reshuffle, we can see that the reorganization of the Democratic League itself reflected a new developing and changing trend in the middle and late 1940s in the society of China. The trend suggests that, considering the impact of Anti-Japanese War on the various levels of Chinese society, the Anti-Japanese War is never merely an anti-aggression war against the outside invaders in a simple military meaning. Its social and historical significances have been far beyond itself.