How did the Anti-Japanese War transform old China？

　　As early as 1939, Mao Zedong pointed out in the article "China Revolution and the Communist Party of China (CPC)" that the China Revolution had two tasks: national liberation and class liberation and modernization. The first task was completed with the establishment of People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949, and the second task continues today. In this way, the Anti-Japanese War is a part of the new-democratic revolution, which exists in the process of dual tasks at the same time. It is not only an anti-aggression war, but also a social revolution, political power building and cultural innovation. Only by comprehensively understanding the Anti-Japanese War can we understand the origin, national nature and development logic of the People’s Republic of China and link the historical continuity between the Anti-Japanese War and New China.

　　Mao Zedong wrote in "On Protracted War": "Revolutionary war is an antitoxin, which not only eliminates the enemy’s poisonous flame, but also cleanses itself. Any just revolutionary war is very powerful. It can transform many things or open the way for transformation. The Sino-Japanese War will transform China and Japan; As long as China persists in the war of resistance and the United front, it will certainly be able to turn old Japan into new Japan and old China into new China, and people and things in China and Japan will be transformed after this war. " So, how did the Anti-Japanese War transform old China?

　　During the eight-year national anti-Japanese war, the armed forces led by the Communist Party of China fought against the enemy more than 125,000 times, annihilating more than 520,000 Japanese troops and 1.18 million puppet troops. Compared with these flat data, the media prefer to talk about all kinds of guerrilla tactics in Shan Ye’s dense forests, underground tunnels and green tents, but the media rarely touch on the ideological roots of these unconventional military means, that is, the line of national resistance proposed and implemented by the Communist Party of China, widely mobilize and organize the masses, take root in the countryside with the people, and surround the Japanese aggressors in the Wang Yang sea of the people’s war. This series of practices has completely changed the fragmented situation of "what is Dili for me" in the traditional society of China, and the regime has the ability to absorb grassroots resources and mobilize grassroots people for the first time. Liang Shuming concluded in "The Road to the Founding of the People’s Republic": "It turns out that groups cause struggles, and struggles promote groups. Group is actually associated with struggle, while laxity is related to peace. " It is at the critical juncture of national peril that the CPC mobilized the broad masses of peasants by means of class struggle, integrated resources with high degree of organization, flexible representation and super action, and finally completed the transformation of modern countries. The people are closely related to the fate of the country, and the country finally obtains its reality.

　　During the Anti-Japanese War, the Chinese Communist Party developed 19 base areas behind enemy lines, covering an area of nearly 1 million square kilometers and a population of nearly 100 million. The base areas behind enemy lines have made remarkable achievements in economy, politics and culture, and laid the basic form of modern China. Politically, a "three-thirds system" democratic regime was established and three large-scale democratic elections were held. In order to let the illiterate peasants truly master politics, the base areas adopted election methods such as voting, drawing circles, marking roads, burning incense holes, throwing beans, decentralized voting, and moving ballot boxes. Qin Jin ballad sings: "Jin Doudou, Yindoudou and Doudou can’t vote casually, choose the right person, do a good job, and vote in the bowl of good people". For this reason, American journalist Smedley once described the bean selection of farmers in Jinzhong in "Battle Hymn of China", thinking that this is a more thorough universal suffrage than Britain and the United States. Economically, the base areas should adjust their strategies to reduce rents and interest rates in a timely manner to safeguard the anti-Japanese democratic United front. The Yan ‘an Mass Production Movement made the labor field public by means of political mobilization, and the military and civilians worked together, and leading cadres and ordinary people worked together, which not only successfully overcame material shortage, but also created equal politics in Yan ‘an period. The movement of reforming loafers has made labor a means to realize self-worth, and workers have gained dignity and hope for survival. Culturally, literature and art serving the workers, peasants and soldiers has become the basic principle of literature and art in the new China. The new literature and art, in a way that people like it, makes ordinary people "turn over" and "turn over their hearts" at the same time, shaping a new socialist.

　　Carlson, the captain of the US Marine Corps and a close confidant of President Roosevelt, went to Yan ‘an to observe and understand, and his attitude towards the Chinese Communist Party changed dramatically. Even right-wingers like Wilson Peterkin, the third leader of the US military observation group in Yan ‘an, praised the efforts made by the Chinese Communist Party at the grassroots level. Si Nuo’s Red Star over China regards Yan ‘an as a new beginning of Chinese civilization, while Latimer regards Yan ‘an as a continuation of China’s kingly way. However, the facts that even foreigners have seen are today framed as disgusting. "To destroy people and govern the country, we must first go to its history; It simplifies the war of resistance to Japan into a human tragedy or pure violence of "tearing the devil by hand", and consciously obliterates and ignores the class liberation, social revolution and political power construction in the anti-Japanese democratic base areas, which is the first nothingness in the memory of the current war of resistance to Japan.

　　After World War I, the geopolitical pattern of the world has undergone great changes: the decline of Europe, the rise of the United States, the birth of the Soviet Union, and the rise of a new global order and global vision. China’s tenacious struggle in the Asian battlefield held back Japan’s main military power and prevented it from going north and south, which made great contributions to the world anti-fascist war and profoundly influenced the post-war world pattern. The victory of the Anti-Japanese War dealt a blow to the colonial system of the imperialist world, created an international environment for the post-war colonial and semi-colonial liberation movement, and effectively rebuilt the world order. Japanese historian Yu Nabarun compares China’s war of resistance against Japan to playing chess, while Japan’s attack is similar to playing chess, which vividly reveals the differences of war thinking modes between China and Japan. It is with the help of grasping the world situation that the CCP can find opportunities in the unbalanced geographical pattern and finally win the war. It is undoubtedly the second nihility of the war of resistance against Japan to obliterate China’s world vision and efforts to rebuild the world order, ignore the Wang Daoism and civilization view of "Long live the great unity of the people of the world", turn it into narrow nationalism and pure hatred of Japan, and automatically give up China’s right to speak internationally.

　　The essence of talking about national liberation while ignoring class liberation and social revolution is to deny the unique modernization road of socialist China. Only talking about nationalism without talking about China’s revolutionary world vision and civilization concept will certainly encourage China’s threat theory and consolidate the existing hegemonic order. The essence of the struggle for the memory of the Anti-Japanese War is the difference between the concept of state and the concept of development. When we understand how all kinds of realistic political forces make history "diverted", crooked ways and evil ways can no longer be concealed.