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Organisational Principles of the Chinese Communists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

H. F. Schurmann
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The countries of Asia and Africa have seen the rise of numerous and powerful socio-political movements during the past few decades, movements which have shaken existing orders and have launched these nations on the road of modernisation. Although these movements have almost always been nationalist in character during the early phases of revolution, subsequently leftist radical movements have arisen; most of these have been Communist.

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The China Quarterly , Volume 2 , June 1960 , pp. 47 - 58
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1960

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References

1 See his Selected Works (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1954), Vol. II.Google Scholar

2 Almost all of the known writings and speeches of Liu prior to 1949 deal with problems of organisation, discipline, training, etc.

3 One of the most interesting discussions on organisation is this little-known speech by Liu given some time between 1941 and 1945. To my knowledge, this speech, entitled “Training hi Organisation and Discipline,” Tsu-chih-shang ho chi-lü-shang ti hsiu-yang, was never published in China, but was printed and circulated by the Malayan Communists (publication date of 04 5, 1952).Google Scholar

4 In the talk “Training in Organisation and Discipline” Liu admits that it is possible even for the majority of the Central Committee to be wrong. As an example, he cites the Sian Incident, where “it was a minority of geniuses and far-sighted men who perceived the march of history’ (p. 12).Google Scholar

5 Questions and Answers on the Program of the Chinese Communist Party (Chung-kuo Kung-ch'an-tang kang-ling wen-ta) (Peking, 1957), pp. 80–84.Google Scholar

6 Compare the very illuminating discussion by Boyd Compton on the organisational significance of the “rectification” movements of 1942–44; Compton, Boyd, Mao's China—Party Reform Documents, 1942–44 (University of Washington Press: Seattle, 1952), pp. xv–xxxiii.Google Scholar