The Chinese International of Nationalities: the Chinese Communist Party, the Comintern, and the foundation of the Malayan National Communist Party, 1923–1939

Belogurova, Anna

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“…24 (September 2017) • (http://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-24) principle of one "national" Communist Party per country. Building on Comintern internationalism and on Sun Yat-sen's and the GMD's idea of uniting with the "oppressed nations," the one thousand to fifteen hundred Chinese Communists in Malaya, lacking language skills and often condescending to the locals, unsuccessfully attempted to build a "national" Malayan party that would unite the members of Chinese, Malay, and Indian ethnic communities (Belogurova 2014).…”

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“…24 (September 2017) • (http://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-24) this vision, as it fit the Comintern's interest in the MCP becoming a connecting hub in Southeast Asia. While the Comintern's leverage in Malaya was limited to sporadic contact and promises of funds and international recognition, the MCP established regional Chinese Communist connections in mainland Southeast Asia, which fitted the Chinese Communist organizational interests (Belogurova 2014). Similarly, the Comintern's need to connect the Philippine and U.S.…”

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“…Moreover, the CCP promoted the creation of the Far Eastern LAI in 1930, a plan that did not materialize because of the collapse of the Shanghai bureau of the Comintern in 1931 (Wang Z. 1985, 300-320;Petersson 2013Belogurova 2014). The concept of antiimperialist leagues built on Sun Yat-sen's and the GMD's internationalism and channeled the explaining the meaning of the resolutions of the eleventh plenum of the Executive Committee of the Comintern, wrote that a world revolution and the national liberation of the colonies would benefit China's national interests and revolution (Han 1934, 3).…”

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Networks, Parties, and the "Oppressed Nations": The Comintern and Chinese Communists Overseas, 1926–1935

Belogurova¹

2017

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In the late 1920s, the overseas chapters of the Chinese Communist Party allied with the Third Communist International (Comintern)'s pursuit of world revolution and made efforts to take part in anti-colonial movements around the world. As Chinese migrant revolutionaries dealt with discrimination in their adopted countries, they promoted local, Chinese, and world revolutions, borrowing ideas from various actors while they built their organizations and contributed to the project of China's revival. This article offers a window into the formation of globally connected Chinese revolutionary networks and explores their engagement with Comintern internationalism in its key enclaves in Berlin, San Francisco, Havana, Singapore, and Manila. These engagements built on existing ideas about China's revival and channeled localization needs of the Chinese migrant Communists. The article draws on sources deposited in the Comintern archive in Moscow (RGASPI), as well as on personal reminiscences published as literary and historical materials (wenshi ziliao).

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Networks, Parties, and the "Oppressed Nations": The Comintern and Chinese Communists Overseas, 1926–1935

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2017

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Ambivalent fatherland: The Chinese National Salvation Movement in Malaya and Java, 1937–41

Xie¹

2021

J. Southeast Asian stud.

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China's resistance to Japanese aggression escalated into a full-scale war in 1937. The continuously deteriorating situation stimulated the rise of Chinese nationalism in the diaspora communities worldwide. The Japanese invasion of China, accompanied by the emergence of the National Salvation Movement (NSM) in Southeast Asia, provided the overseas Chinese with a rare opportunity to re-examine their ‘Chineseness’, as well as their relationships with the colonial states and the increasingly self-aware indigenous populations. This research problematises traditional approaches that tend to regard the NSM as primarily driven by Chinese patriotism. Juxtaposing Malaya and Java at the same historical moment, the article argues that the emergence of the NSM was more than just a natural result of the rising Chinese nationalism. Local politics and the shifting political orientations of overseas Chinese communities also profoundly shaped how the NSM played out in different colonial states.

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How the first revolution affected the second: The setback of 1927 for the Chinese Communist Party Revolution in the 1920s

Zhou

2023

Mod. Asian Stud.

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The Bolsheviks’ world revolution encountered setbacks in the 1920s. Among the bloodiest of these was the massacre of 1927 when the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) entire central leadership was killed in the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (GMD) coup. Existing explanations highlight Moscow’s miscalculation, infighting within the Kremlin, Soviet advisers’ information dilemma, and the CCP leaders’ political inexperience. This article compares the opening stages of the Bolshevik (or Russian) and Chinese Communist Party revolutions to explain why the 1927 setback became a catastrophe. It argues that the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 caused fundamental changes, which thwarted any attempt to replicate the 1917 victory in the post-1917 world. The CCP in 1927 faced three disadvantages that the Bolshevik Revolution had engendered: a misleading myth about the October Revolution, a Bolshevized system of repression created by Soviet advisers to the GMD, and the ‘red scare’ in Japan and British Southeast Asia, which blocked members of the CCP from escaping overseas. This article draws on leaders’ biographical materials to compare the two parties’ learning from foreign revolutions, records in suffering repression, and experiences as overseas refugees. The comparison shows that the Bolsheviks did not face these three disadvantages before 1917.

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The Chinese International of Nationalities: the Chinese Communist Party, the Comintern, and the foundation of the Malayan National Communist Party, 1923–1939

Cited by 5 publications

References 21 publications

Networks, Parties, and the "Oppressed Nations": The Comintern and Chinese Communists Overseas, 1926–1935

Networks, Parties, and the "Oppressed Nations": The Comintern and Chinese Communists Overseas, 1926–1935

Ambivalent fatherland: The Chinese National Salvation Movement in Malaya and Java, 1937–41

How the first revolution affected the second: The setback of 1927 for the Chinese Communist Party Revolution in the 1920s

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