Society
Chinese society was greatly affected during the 10-year project, in which the KDT used mass propaganda and indoctrination to create a “Nationalist Revolutionary State for the Han People (漢民革命国家).” The concept of the NRS, as it was often abbreviated in the west, was the idea of a State for the Han ethnicity and the Han alone through revolution, ethnic cleansing, subsidies to Han businesses, and the promotion of the newly formed Great Han People’s Bureaucracy (大漢民官僚). A whole subject known as Revolutionary Studies was created in primary and secondary schools was for the sole purpose of teaching “Han history and principles.” For the rest of the population, radio broadcasts (as the radio was gaining popularity at the time), leaflets, and posters were utilized for indoctrination. A prominent feature of this societal change was the increasing jingoistic and nationalistic outlook of the society. The free press often decried Japan and Britain, and praised the KDT for its works. The indoctrination was one of the most successful in history, with nearly all ethnic Han supporting the party in an unbiased American poll done in secret. Beginning in 1935, the KDT bought out a small film company in Fujian province, and began to produce propaganda movies. These movies had some of the largest budgets of any movies throughout the world, and were huge successes in China, with even some success abroad. The bureaucracy was gigantic; in 1936, the central facility in Beijing alone was staffed by 38,000 bureaucrats. The sheer size of the 10-year project required many bureaucrats; because of this, the meritocratic nature of the dynastic bureaucracies was put on the sideline as the bureaucracy need manpower, and quickly. In order to compensate for the lack of skill in the lower ranks, the bureaucracy was organized in military fashion, with skilled “NCOs” organizing small teams of bureaucrats to administer their assigned villages and towns. The Nationalistic propaganda and spirit of the times helped reduce corruption and regionalism within the bureaucracy that was widespread in centuries past.