太岳抗日根拠地における群衆英雄運動 : 前線根拠地における英雄の表象

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) developed a hero model movement at its anti-Japanese bases, modeled on the Soviet Union’s Stakhanov Movement. Previous studies have examined the role of the hero model movement in social transformation and its relationship with the grassroots cadres. However, the characteristics of the movement at each base have not been clarified. In this report, I would like to clarify the characteristics of the movement by analyzing the hero model movement in the frontline Taiyue base area. Due to the blockade imposed by the Japanese army and the suspension of supplies from the Kuomintang of China from 1940, the Taiyue base area began to honor labor heroes and militia heroes to promote a national resistance against Japan. After 1944, the methods of the Shaan-Gan-Ning Border Region’s hero model movement were introduced, but the unique characteristics of the movement in the Taiyue base area were maintained. In addition, the Taiyue base area’s method of honoring examples of weak and revolutionary individuals, such as military families and disabled military members, was also inherited by the hero model movement of the People’s Republic of China. This relationship of succession can be understood by capturing the overall development of the hero model movement, including events experienced at the front line prior to the Yan’an Great Production Campaign.