Page 45 - SELECTED WORKS OF ZHU DE

ON ANTI-JAPANESE GUERRILLA WAR

1938

GENERAL THEORY

Section 1

Importance of Guerrilla Warfare to the Self-Defence War
Against Japanese Aggression

1. DEFINITION OF THE ANTI-JAPANESE GUERRILLA WAR
— POPULAR OR MILITIA WAR AGAINST JAPAN

Anti-Japanese guerrilla war is a new term on the lips of people
across China. Many are discussing and studying it, and publishing
houses have printed numerous books on the topic. A great number of
patriots and national heroes have been carrying out anti-Japanese
43
guerrilla war, such as the Northeastern People’s Revolutionary Army
44
and the Northeastern Volunteers. Anti-Japanese guerrilla war has
spread widely in northwestern Shanxi Province, in the Shanxi-Hebei-
45
Qahar area, and in the provinces of Shandong, Hebei and Suiyuan, as
well as in the outskirts of Shanghai. This tells us that it is necessary to
conduct a serious theoretical study of this particular war.

One of Comrade Zhu De’s writings in the early period of the War of Resistance
Against Japan (1957-45), parts of which were published in instalments in early 1938
in the weekly, Frontline, of the General Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.
A separate edition of the writing was published by the Liberation Press, Yan’an, in
November the same year. The whole book contained three chapters subdivided
into 17 sections. Here are its first chapter and the first two sections of its third
chapter.
41