The Study On The Construction Of The Political Power Image Of The New Guangxi Clique In The 1930s

The so-called "New Guangxi Clique Constructing Regime Image" is a relatively comprehensive and systematic project of the New Guangxi Clique Group to beautify and reconstruct its own regime image in order to maintain its separatist regime in Guangxi after the Central Plains War.The incident has a complicated historical background.First of all,after the Central Plains War,the new Guangxi clique faced a serious survival crisis and urgently needed to change its image to save the regime.Secondly,the positive construction of the image of the regime is also an objective need for the new Guangxi clique to regain the trust of the people in Guangxi and mobilize the masses to carry out construction activities.Finally,in order to change the bad impression that the new Guangxi clique regime was a "militaristic new warlord regime" after the Central Plains War,the new Guangxi clique began to consciously use the general respect for Sun Zhongshan and the recognition of the Three People’s Principles both inside and outside Guangxi Province at that time to hold high the banner of "Three People’s Principles" in order to command the masses and stage a comeback.In order to break the image of "Three People’s Principles traitor" formed after the Central Plains War and establish a new image of "Three People’s Principles supporter and builder" in the hearts of the people,the new Guangxi clique started from three levels of theory,practice and propaganda.At the theoretical level,the new Guangxi clique created the theory of the Three People’s Principles with Guangxi characteristics and called it "the Guangxiization of the Three People’s Principles".At the practical level,the new Guangxi clique carried out construction activities in Guangxi in terms of military,political,economic and cultural aspects.At the propaganda level,the new Guangxi clique not only directly publicized the achievements of the construction of "new Guangxi" by means of mass media such as leaders’ speeches,books,newspapers and magazines,radio and movies,but also invited celebrities from home and abroad to visit Guangxi and endorse it,indirectly gaining the recognition of the local regime of the new Guangxi clique by the people at home and abroad.In the interaction of public opinion from all walks of life,the new Guangxi clique finally won the political reputation of building a "model province of the Three People’s Principles".These three ways together reconstructed the people’s new impression of the new Guangxi regime.From then on until the War of Liberation,the image of the regime constructed by the new Guangxi clique was gradually stabilized.Due to the adoption of appropriate strategies and methods,in the short term,in the process of building the image of the regime,not only did the new Guangxi regime consolidate its position in the country,but also objectively promoted the development of the Three People’s Principles and its practice in Guangxi,changed the development trend of modern Guangxi,and promoted the formation of the whole nation’s anti-Japanese war.However,in the long run,the image of "the supporter and builder of the Three People’s Principles" of the new Guangxi regime is ultimately the product of artificial "processing" and limited practice of the Three People’s Principles,and its negative impact on Guangxi and even China should not be underestimated.To observe the present,we should learn from the past.Without the past,there is no present.The history that the new Guangxi clique regime gradually collapsed in the war of liberation proved that the new Guangxi clique could not fundamentally change the face of Guangxi by trying to change its own image,and China under the rule of the Kuomintang could not achieve real modernization.Only by adhering to the leadership of the Communist Party of China and the road of socialist development with Chinese characteristics can we build our country into a modern powerful country.