Official Chinese narratives recounting the rise of the Chinese
Communist Party (CCP) tend to minimize the movement's international
associations. Conducting careful readings and translations of
recently released documents in Russian, Japanese, and Chinese,
Ishikawa Yoshihiro builds a portrait of the party's multifaceted
character, revealing the provocative influences that shaped the
movement and the ideologies of its competitors.
Making use of public and private documents and research,
Ishikawa begins the story in 1919 with Chinese intellectuals who
wrote extensively under pen names and, in fact, plagiarized or
translated many iconic texts of early Chinese Marxism. Chinese
Marxists initially drew intellectual sustenance from their Japanese
counterparts, until Japan clamped down on leftist activities. The
Chinese then turned to American and British sources.
Ishikawa traces these networks through an exhaustive survey of
journals, newspapers, and other intellectual and popular
publications. He reports on numerous early meetings involving a
range of groups, only some of which were later funneled into CCP
membership, and he follows the developments at Soviet Russian
gatherings attended by a number of Chinese representatives who
claimed to speak for a nascent CCP. Concluding his narrative in
1922, one year after the party's official founding, Ishikawa
clarifies a traditionally opaque period in Chinese history and
sheds new light on the subsequent behavior and attitude of the
party.
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