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A Political History of the Taiwanese Communist Party, 1928–1931

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Frank S. T. Hsiao  and
Lawrence R. Sullivan
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Abstract

The Taiwanese Communist Party (TCP) was founded in April 1928 as a “Nationality Branch of the Japanese Communist Party” (JCP) by a small group of intellectuals trained in Japan and China. In its three years of existence, the small party confronted enormous difficulties in organizing a communist-led movement on the tightly controlled island. But the failure of the TCP to survive reflected more than just the efficiency of the Japanese police. Among the leadership of Xie Xuehong, Lin Rigao, Su Xin, and others, there was an incessant factionalism that was rooted in their own diverse political origins and in the often contradictory influence of Comintern, JCP, and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) policies. By 1931, the party was disbanded, but, in its two “Political Theses,” the TCP had laid out a revolutionary strategy and a set of political goals that expressed the nationalistic aspirations of many of its leaders.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , February 1983 , pp. 269 - 289
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Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983

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