A Study on the Incident of Xinsui Company Subsidizing Xinjiang students to Go to Inland Regions for Further Study in 1943—From the Perspective of National,Local and Social Interaction
In the second half of 1943,Zhu Bing,general manager of Xinsui Company,proposed to the Nationalist Government the plan of subsidizing students from Xinjiang and the five Northwest provinces to go to national univer-sities in China's inland regions.The Ministry of Education expressed its appreciation and support.However,although Sheng Shicai,who was in charge of Xinjiang,had openly joined the Kuomintang central Committee,he still had a sense of guard against the plan,accusing Zhu Bing of conspiring to sabotage Xinjiang,colluding with the Japanese army and endangering the State.He opposed the implementation of the plan and tried to resist the increasingly close ties between Xinjiang and inland regions.In the end,the Nationalist Government,which had yet to gain a foothold in Xinjiang,chose to compromise temporarily with local forces,and the funding plan was forced to ground to a halt.This incident is a typical case of social forces represented by national enterprises actively participating in border edu-cation during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.It reflects the complex entanglements between the State,locality and society,highlights the dilemma of restricting the development of border education during wartime,and suggests that under the special political ecology,there is still room for further exploration of historical research on border education in social forces besides the central government and the local government.
Xinsui CompanyZhu BingSheng ShicaiMinistry of EducationBorder Education