A Study on the Political Regime of the Chinese Nationalist Party during Wartime.

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16H06585
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Politics
• Research Institution: Hokkaido University
• Principal Investigator: IWATANI Nobu 北海道大学, 大学院法学研究科, 教授 (80779562)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-08-26 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 訓政 / 政治体制 / 中国国民党 / 日中戦争

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study explores the political regime of the Chinese nationalist party during wartime focusing on a party-military-government relation in the decision making process and central-local relations. The findings are as follows, (1) the power of the central government to control the local military leader is limited. (2) Chiang Kai-shek tried to concentrate powers and establish military-centered regime in order to facilitate decision making during wartime. (3) Chiang Kai-shek restricted the member for decision making exclusive to a small group of staff and optimized governmental organization so as to overcome deficiencies in decision making and implementation of the policy before the Sino-Japanese war.

Free Research Field

政治学