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Anti-Imperialism and the Left Guomindang

1985; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 11; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/009770048501100102

1552-6836

Edmund S. K. Fung,

Chinese history and philosophy

Anti-imperialism and mass movements, two dominant features of the Nationalist revolution during the period of the united front 1924-1926, underwent a qualitative change following the establishment of the Nanjing government in April 1927. The Guomindang's (GMD) break with and purge of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) marked the beginning of a counterrevolution. Reorientations in the GMD's domestic and foreign policies were evident, particularly after the communist-inspired Guangzhou uprising of December 1927. Even before the completion of the Northern Expedition in mid-1928, the GMD had decided that the Nationalist revolution had entered a stage in which the most important and urgent task facing the party was national reconstruction. Mass movements were to be brought under strict party control, and anti-imperialism was to take a different form.' To extirpate all communist influence from the party, Sun Zhongshan's (Sun Yat-sen's) Three Principles of the People were purified.