MEASURES AGAINST RESISTANCE

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2003
• Sequence Number: 218
• Publication Date: November 11, 1998
• Content Type: REPORT

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The a_-,cclvpanying tables are a cnmpitat:ion of Peking and regional broadra,st reports
on the campai.grLl= aeal.nst resistanec dements in the vartou. area: of China since 1
January 19. The ".remark=11 are largely irnpressioni_tic.
Limita',i.oa of monito-rr,- Tr.cef:l;i.or.1 r;rc-rlud.e aese.sstng the importance of resistance
in a given area an a iurcti.on of quantitative stress. The paucity of material on
South Chin:. in particular. is to a large extent the result of an inability to
monitor area transmitters consistently,. La_r.ge'-?scale re.si?stance in South China is
indicated by :rsp ori:= from Taipei and Hong .Kong press and radio organs on the basis
of information gleaned from so-- cal.l.ed mainland correspondeentr and Chinese ex-patriots.
Landlord rec.ulci tTanee has rut been induced among the data tabulated, as too
voluminous and of too uncertain relevance, The charges against the landlords, as
described almost entirely by the regional t:ransn+itters, have not changed to any great
extent in the last year and Include one or more of the following* (1) attempts to
undermine land reform and the rent-reduction movrement, (1-1) the removal, sale. trans-'
fer o:r donation of prope-ty in contravention of legal stipulations, (3) attempts to
conceal asectr., (4) attempts to increase resiSta.nce to the regime, and (5) connivance
with Nationalist or American agente or reactionary groupr to destroy the regime..
The general development of resistance and Peli.ng's attempt to cope with it propagan-
distically and. otherwise may be traced from, the early days following the collapse of
Nationalist armies in early 1950. For the remainder, of 1950, reports of resistance
characterized the opponent force, as KMT remnants who were being mopped u.p.. There
were sporadic reports of the arrest of secret agents, but by far mast comment
concernea the elimination of large bands of Irregulars,. This was especially true
concerning the coastal. areas, Chekiang, Kiangsu, and those areas Contiguous to
Indochina and Thailand, Szechwan, Kansu, Yunnan, Kwangsi.. There were comparatively
few reports of continued fighting in those areas contiguou-r to Soviet-controlled
territories and Mongolia, S._nkixactlg, Ninghsia., Suiyuan and Chahar. This area
pattern has continued. There are lew reports of resistance from the interior areas
such as Anhwei, Hupeh, Hunan, and Shansli, or from Manchurian areas other than the
industrial area. of Mukden, Dairen and Port Arthur., and occasionally from Changchun,
the Japanese M,aiichulruoan capital., and Tsitsihar.,
The early or-tentation of the Peking Government towards all forms of resistance was
one of punishment for the principal criminals, leniency for the underlings, and
rewards for the meritorlou , A Peking commentary of 26 December. 1950 indicated the
drastic .reversal in policy that was to be crystalized two months later with the
promulgation of the "Regulations of the People's Republic of China Concerning the
Punishment of Counterrevolutionaries. 11 Lamenting the threat to the established
goverment which had resulted from the "blind application." of lenient treatment, the
commentary decried that when recalcitrants were only imprisoned many of them
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