閩西上杭人傅柏翠,一位顯赫一時的民國時期農村地方強人。他早年崇尚孫中山的革命思想,後又成為社會主義的信徒。他允文允武,曾籌辦民團捍衛鄉里,也曾擔任律師,為鄉民仗義執言。第一次國共分裂後,傅被迫走上共產革命之途。1931年,傅脫離共黨,以一位左翼份子、地方領袖的身份,繼續活躍於閩西社會,致力於地方農村改革。國民黨當局恐怕傅尾大不掉,中共方面也批評他,但傅卻在國共兩方間捭闔縱橫,獲得夾縫間的生存,並逐漸發展自身勢力,成為閩西地區勢力最龐大的地方強人,直到1949年再投入共產黨的懷抱為止。本文將透過1949年以前傅柏翠個人歷史的重構,試圖闡明民國時期農村地方強人的多重面向。
Fu Bai-cui, a Hakka from Shanghang County in Minxi region, was a multi-faceted local rural elite during the period of the Republican China. His rise to prominence was attributed to his power, wealth, and exercise of local Hakka cultural and interpersonal network. Besides, Fu was a revolutionary intellectual and a disciple of Sun Yat-sen at the very beginning, and then he was forced to participate in the communist revolution. Being excommunicated by the Chinese Communist Party in 1931, however, Fu maintained a left-wing local elite and insisted in rural reform until 1949, when he rejoined the CCP. This article tries to reconstruct the history of Fu Bai-cui and explore the multidimensional characters of local rural elites during the period of the Republican China.