Using the documents, evaluate the relationship between Chinese peasants and the Chinese Communist Party between circa 1925 and circa 1950. Document 1

Source: Japanese Political Affairs Bureau for Occupied China, administrative office of the Japanese Army, report, 1941.

The Chinese Communist Red Army champions army-civilian integration and is continuously organizing local guerrilla units. As a consequence, it is extraordinarily difficult to separate the Communist bandits from the peasants in our efforts to destroy the Communists.

Document 2

Source: Chinese Communist report on Japanese military actions in North China villages, 1942.

In Japanese attacks on our villages, they killed 97 civilians, wounded 382, kidnapped 3, and raped 216 women. Japanese soldiers stole farm animals (734 oxen, 694 mules, 6 donkeys, 45 horses, 734 hogs, 6 goats, 106 ducks, 13,817 chickens); thousands of chairs and tables, kitchen pots and rice bowls, and stone grinders; thousands of peasants’ quilts and piles of clothing; over 6,000 bushels of grain; tons of straw; and 430,000 yuan.*

*yuan: Chinese currency

Document 3

Source: Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, instructions to local party officials, 1942.

Recognize that peasants constitute the basic strength of the Anti-Japanese War. Accordingly it is the policy of the party to assist the peasant, reduce feudal exploitation by the landlords, support civil liberties, political rights, and economic rights of the peasants in order to improve their living conditions and enhance their enthusiasm for the Anti-Japanese War.