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Dictionary definition: Communist Party, Chinese
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- A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
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Communist Party, Chinese (
CCP
)
Founded in Shanghai on 1 July 1921 by
Li Dazhao
and
Chen Duxiu
, it was a response partly to international developments, most notably the
Bolshevik
Russian Revolution
of 1917, and partly to domestic events. Most important of these were the spread of Communist and left-wing ideas during the
May Fourth Movement
(1919), and the current political anarchy in a country dominated by local
warlords
. In 1922 it accepted the direction of
Comintern
, and followed its orders to cooperate with the
Guomindang
(KMT) of
Sun Yat-sen
. Initially, the party was slow to take off, with around 1,000 members in 1925, but its effective membership drives based on
trade union
organization ...