The Low-Key Club was a

pacifist Pacifism is the opposition to war or violence. The word ''pacifism'' was coined by the French peace campaigner Émile Arnaud and adopted by other peace activists at the tenth Universal Peace Congress in Glasgow in 1901. A related term is ''a ...

group composed of a faction of party, government, military, and academic elites from the Nanjing Nationalist Government prior to and during the early stages of the

Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought between the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China and the Empire of Japan between 1937 and 1945, following a period of war localized to Manchuria that started in 1931. It is considered part ...

. They were dissatisfied with the prevailing "hysteria" that promoted war against Japan and emphasized China's inability to effectively counter Japan's military power. 台北政治大学教授胡春惠：“汪精卫与‘低调俱乐部’”，《抗日战争研究》，1999年第1期，第35-39页。

Members

Carsun Chang Carsun Chang (; 1887–1969), also known as Chang Chun-mai () or Carson Chang, was a prominent Chinese philosopher, public intellectual and a social democratic politician. He was recognized as "Father of Constitution in Republic of China". He ...

Chen Lifu Chen Lifu or Ch'en Li-fu (; 21 August 1900 – 8 February 2001) was a politician in the Republic of China. He was a close advisor of Chiang Kai-shek. With his brother Chen Guofu, he led the CC Clique. Life and career Chen was born in Wuxi ...

Cheng Tsang-po Cheng Tsang-po (Chinese: 程滄波; born Cheng Chung-hsing, 程中行; March 6, 1903 – July 21, 1990) was a Chinese journalist and politician. A member of the CC Clique within the Kuomintang, he was elected as a legislator in 1948. In 1958, Chen ...

Gao Zongwu Gao Zongwu ( zh, c=高宗武, w=Kao Tsung-wu; 1905 – 1994) was a Chinese diplomat in the Republic of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. He was best known for playing a key role in negotiations between China and Japan from 1937 to 194 ...

Gu Zhutong Gu Zhutong ( zh, s=顾祝同, t=顧祝同, first=t, p=Gù Zhùtóng, w=Ku4 Chu4-t‘ung2; January 9, 1893 – January 17, 1987), courtesy name Mosan (墨三), also rendered as Ku Chu-tung, was a military general and administrator of the Republic ...

Hu Shih Hu Shih ( zh, t=胡適; 17 December 189124 February 1962) was a Chinese academic, writer, and politician. Hu contributed to Chinese liberalism and language reform, and was a leading advocate for the use of written vernacular Chinese. He part ...

* Li Huang *

Luo Junqiang Luo Junqiang () (1902 – February 22, 1970) was a politician of the Republic of China. He was born in Xiangtan, Hunan. In 1922, at the age of 20, Luo joined the Chinese Communist Party, but later left it to join the Kuomintang. He served in the g ...

Mei Siping Mei Siping (; 1896 – September 14, 1946) was a Kuomintang politician of the Republic of China and associate of Wang Jingwei. He served in various posts in Wang's government in Nanjing, as well as second (and final) president of Southern Univers ...

Wang Jingwei Wang Zhaoming (4 May 188310 November 1944), widely known by his pen name Wang Jingwei, was a Chinese politician who was president of the Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China, a puppet state of the Empire of Japan. He was in ...

* Xiong Shihui * Zhang Dongsun *

Zhou Fohai Zhou Fohai (; Hepburn: ''Shū Futsukai''; May 29, 1897 – February 28, 1948) was a Chinese politician and the second-in-command of the Executive Yuan in Wang Jingwei's collaborationist Reorganized National Government of the Republic of Chin ...

Zhu Shaoliang Zhu Shaoliang or Chu Shao-liang () (28 October 1891 – 25 December 1963) was a general in the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China. In 1935, he was hand-picked by Chiang Kai-shek as the comm ...

References

{{Reflist Factions in the Kuomintang Pacifism