Chinas Party Politics

1
Chinas Party Politics

• The CCP v. GMD Why two Soviet-styled parties
  pitched against each other?

2
The Origins of Chinas Parties

• From the Revolutionary Alliance to Guomindang
  the necessity of parliamentarian politics
• The GMDs lesson learned from struggle against
  Yuan and warlords the importance of military
  force,
• Suns left turning toward the Soviet military
  aid, the Huangpu Military Academy,

3
Communisms Entry into China

• The May 4th Incident of 1919,
• Radicalization of Chinese intelligentsia Li
  Dazhao Chen Duxiu Beijing University New
  Youth magazine from liberalism to communism
• The rediscovery of Russian Revolution of 1917
  the Karakhan Announcement (July 1919)
• Lenins theory of imperialism, colonial
  semi-colonial nationalism, and the Comintern

4
The CCPs Initial Development

• Born as a part of the Comintern with political
  financial aid from Moscow (July 1921 in
  Shanghai),
• The crude class struggle doctrine landlord
  comprador classes as the enemy, national
  bourgeois as a possible ally,
• The reluctance to ally with GMD, and to embrace
  the barrow of a gun,
• Moscow as a tutor the united front strategy to
  use the bourgeois party (GMD) to advance the CCP
  cause
• The block within the GMD in 1924, while Sun
  took the GMD to turn left unite with the USSR,
  the CCP, and sympathize with the workers
  peasants,

5
The Grand Revolution 1924-27

• Mass agitation mobilization in the city and
  countryside organizing the Peasant Associations
  and trade union,
• Strikes against warlords, imperialists, and
  boycott against foreign goods nationalistic
  sentiments utilized by the CCP as a rallying
  point, while nationalism was fundamentally
  bourgeois,
• The split of the GMD the West Hill faction in
  1925 as the right wing, Jiang Jieshe as the
  center, Wang Jinwei as the left wing,

6
The Grand Revolution 1924-27

• The May Thirtieth Movement of 1925 the
  radicalization of mass movement and the GMD
  reaction,
• Jiangs move in March 1926 against the CCP in the
  academy,
• The Northern Expedition marching north from to
  directions east toward Shanghai (Jiang), west
  toward Wuhan (Wang and the CCP),
• Further mass mobilization in the city and
  countryside (Maos article on peasant movement
  (1926)
• The bloody coup of Jiang in spring 1927 against
  the CCP, and the establishment of the Nanjing
  government,
• Wangs purge of the CCP and the unification of
  China in 1928, (Marshall Zhang of Manchurias
  nationalism)

7
The Nanjing Decade and the Civil War, 1927-1937

• The CCPs retreat to the countryside to engage in
  armed struggle the rural bases in remote
  mountainous regions,
• Maos rural strategy and peasant mobilization,
  and the myth of Maos correct line v. the
  erroneous line of other CCP leaders associated
  with Comintern,
• The Long March as a defeat and aimless retreat
  for survival,

8
The Soviet Factor

• Maos rise to power was due to Stalins
  endorsement,
• Mao was instrumental in restoring radio contact
  with Moscow, which he controlled tightly,
• The Soviet influence on Chinas politics the
  anti-Jiang forces dream of repeating Sun-Jiangs
  success in allying with Moscow,
• Marshall Zheng and General Yang, and their secret
  liaison with the CCP in the northwest,
• The Soviet promise of military aid, and the CCP
  military strategy of eastern western expeditions,
• The Xian Incident in Dec. 1936 the turning point
  in the party politics,