The Debate on the Nature of Chinese Society and the Investigation of Rural Areas in Wuxi and Baoding
The discussion of the nature of Chinese society is one of the fundamental issues of modern Chinese revolution.In the first half of the 1930s,there was a debate in the Chinese theoretical community on the nature of Chinese society,including discussions on three issues:the debate on the nature of Chinese society,the debate on the history of Chinese society,and the debate on the nature of Chinese rural society.As a scholar with global influence in modern times,Chen Hansheng,starting from China's reality and taking the most urgent rural issues in China at that time as a starting point,conducted rural economic surveys in Wuxi and Baoding,collected a large amount of micro evidence,and solidly demonstrated the nature and structure of China's economy,which has long been a concern of the theoretical community since modern times.The survey results show that modern Chinese society was a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society,with scattered rural land rights and heavy tax burdens.Financial exploitation of farmers such as land rent and rural usury was a social and economic characteristic of the reality of semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.The investigation in Wuxi and Baoding provided realistic support for the revolutionary theory of the CPC and objectively promoted the spread of revolutionary theory and thought.
Debate on the Nature of Chinese SocietyRural Investigation in Wuxi,BaodingChen Hansheng