ElizabethPL

From 1928 to 1937 the running of Chiang Kai Shek’s government began. At first Chiang’s government, seemed to have accomplished an immense amount of success. This was seen as a result of his ability to modernise essentials of China, these essentials if managed the correct way could lead to an improvement in the way China’s government ran. These fundamentals involved improving education and public transport as well as launching financers and banks for China’s people. However, when Chiang began the implementation of his own policies it lead to a huger impact on China as the principles which Sun Yat-sen formed and developed (in regards to democracy) for the people of China began to be ignored. This meant that Chiang was no longer making decisions that were in the best interests of the people in China, thus losing the ‘hearts and minds’ of the majority of the peasants who made up 80% of China’s population. The reasoning for the principles of Sun Yatsen and the modernising of China being ignored was that Chiang gained interest in fascist government. This meant that no longer was he concentrated on improving the peasants’ lives but instead he became more interested in developing and expanding the political and military gain. Therefore, due to the fact that he had placed his own best interests in improving these aspects of his government he lost the hearts and minds of the peasants and he could no longer uphold the areas of production that he was determined too modernise. Therefore because of the decisions Chiang chose and didn’t choose to make, this led to his major fall as he no longer had the majority of China’s population confidence and loyalty as he failed to make the correct descisions.
 * __ To what extent did Chiang Kai-shek implement the policy of People's Livelihood as outlined by Sun Yatsen in the period 1928 to 1937? __**

Ms Lawrence, my full one didnt save correctly so here is the beginning of my essay. I will try and compleate the rest again over the weekend. Elizabeth