The support effort
- Home
-
Explore the scroll
- Before the gold rush
- Chinese workers
- Australian gold rush
- Chinese miners
- Anti-Chinese violence
- Lambing flat riots
- A safe haven
- Isolated and homesick
- Rise of merchants
- Market gardens and musicians
- Vendors and cooks
- Laundries and factories
- The general store
- Trouble in the homeland
- Opium
- Revolution in China
- Republican victory
- Healing the sick
- The strength of traditions
- Religion
- Developing the north
- Riverboat trade
- Entrepreneurs
- Politics and racism
- Invasion
- The support effort
- The Second World War
- The war effort
- The People's Republic of China
- Melbourne Olympics
- Colombo Plan
- Multiculturalism
- Professions
- Rising to the top
- Australia's Bicentenary
- Towards the future
- Final inscription
- How to read the scroll
- Creating the scroll
- The people
- Acknowledgements and bibliography
The support effort
Many events were organised in Australia to raise funds to support the Chinese government against the Japanese invasion. These young Chinese women are contestants in the annual Dragon Ball fundraiser in Sydney. A letter from Chinese general and leader Jiang Jieshi, urging support, is being copied for distribution.
Jiang Jieshi
Chinese nationalist general and leader, Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-Shek) headed governments of China from 1928 to 1949 and, from 1949, the exiled nationalist government in Taiwan. A trained military leader, Jiang served in the 1911 Chinese Revolution and in rebellions against the government of Yuan Shih-Kai. From 1918 he served with Dr Sun Yat-Sen's nationalist Kuomintang government. Following Sun Yat-Sen's death in 1925 Jiang Jieshi led the Kuomintang against the communist forces during the Chinese Civil War (1927–1949). Jiang later led China during the war against the Japanese from 1937 to 1945. After the end of the Second World War, the communists were successful in driving Jiang's nationalist government and supporters into exile in Taiwan. In 1937, Jiang Jieshi sent a letter to the Chinese in Australia, appealing for their support against the Japanese invasion.
