Chinese Communist Party founded
July, 1921 · 20th Century
July 1921. The founding National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party was originally held in a house in the Shanghai French Concession, French police interrupted the meeting on July 30 and the congress was moved to a tourist boat on South Lake in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province. Only 12 delegates attended the congress, with neither Li nor Chen being able to attend, the latter sending a personal representative in his stead. The resolutions of the congress called for the establishment of a communist party (as a branch of the Communist International) and elected Chen as its leader
Key Figures
Mao ZedongChen DuxiuLi Dazhao
Locations
Shanghai French ConcessionSouth Lake (Nanhu)
Topics
communismgovernmentChinacivilization
Connected Events — 3 Connections
The CCP's 1921 founding set in motion the revolutionary movement that Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists nearly destroyed, forcing the desperate 6,000-mile Long March retreat in 1934 The Long March: CCP Escapes Nationalist Encirclement
The Republic of China's failure to deliver on democratic promises and its weakness against warlordism created the disillusionment among intellectuals that led to the founding of the CCP as an alternative revolutionary path Republic of China established
The 1911 Revolution's failure to deliver meaningful social change and the Republic's subsequent weakness created the political vacuum and disillusionment that drove intellectuals like Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao to seek more radical solutions, leading to the CCP's founding 1911 Revolution (China)
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