Nanjing Decade
The Nanjing Decade南京 十年 (Pinyin: nanjing shinian) is the period from 1927 to 1937 when Nanjing南京 was the capital of the Guomindang国民党during the Chinese Civil War under Chiang Kai-Shek .
After the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, the Guomindang moved their capital to Chongqing . After the Japanese took Nanjing, the Nanjing massacre broke out .
Planned city
The Guomindang wanted to make Nanjing a modern capital. Both traditional Chinese and Western elements should be incorporated. Numerous new buildings were erected.
Social problems
Because of poverty, unemployment and housing shortages, slums formed. In addition, many refugees came to the capital as a result of the civil war and natural disasters. However, the government's numerous measures to solve the problem, such as social housing, were largely unsuccessful.
literature
Lipkin, Zwia: Useless to the State - "Social Problems" and Social Engineering in Nationalist Nanjing, 1927–1937, Cambridge (Massachusetts) / London: Harvard University Press, 2006.