Chinese Communist Party

English

Proper noun

the Chinese Communist Party

1. (Chinese politics) Alternative form of Communist Party of China.
   • 1953, Mao Tse-tung, “Mao Tse-tung's Tribute to Stalin”, in Current Soviet Policies‎, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 254:

     Following the doctrine of Lenin and Stalin, relying on the support of the great Soviet state and all the revolutionary forces of all countries, the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese people gained an historic victory a few years ago.

   • 1955 February 26, J. A. del Vayo, “THE EASTERN FONT Some Military Appraisals”, in The Nation‎, volume 180, number 9, New York, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 173:

     Today the emphasis in China, as in the Soviet Union, is on heavy industry. “Modern armed forces cannot be built without heavy industry,” the People’s Daily, the central organ of the Chinese Communist Party, has remarked pointedly.

   • 1973 February 4, “Record of perfidy”, in Free China Weekly‎, volume XIV, number 5, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

     The history of the Chinese Communist Party is a long record of treachery and perfidy.

   • 1991, Hans J. Van de Ven, From Friend to Comrade: the Founding of the Chinese Communist Party, 1920-1927‎, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 19:

     The report of the Peking cell to the First Congress of the CCP in July 1921 expressed what seems to have been a general disillusionment with the May Fourth movement among those who were to join the Chinese Communist Party when it wrote that "the students exerted a great deal of effort, hoping to arouse the interest of the masses in political events. None of it bore any fruit."⁴² The Chinese Communist Party, then, was not a straightforward continuation of the May Fourth movement.

   • 1992 [1941 April 15], Xiaoping Deng, “The Party and the Anti-Japanese Democratic Government”, in Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping‎, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 17:

     If we say that the Communist Parties in West European countries are tainted with some undesirable traditions of the social-democratic parties, the Chinese Communist Party is more or less tainted with the undesirable traditions of the Kuomintang. The concept of “ruling the country by the party”, held by some comrades, is a manifestation in our Party of an abominable tradition of the Kuomintang.

   • 1995, Carl Sagan, “The Most Precious Thing”, in The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark‎, 1st edition, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 18:

     The government of China and the Chinese Communist Party were alarmed by certain of these developments. On December 5, 1994, they issued a joint proclamation that read in part:
     [P]ublic education in science has been withering in recent years. At the same time, activities of superstition and ignorance have been growing, and antiscience and pseudoscience cases have become frequent. Therefore, effective measures must be applied as soon as possible to strengthen public education in science.

   • 2009, Mark Mozden, The Omega Point‎ (Fiction), Buzz-Rack! Books, →ISBN, page 62:

     He turned his head to make eye contact with a man on another screen in his limo. At an angle that allowed the man to view the screen of the security council meeting, but not allow them to see him.
     One of his company’s principals. And a member of the Chinese Communist Party. Though they were changing its name, Borgeon knew. Because after Transformation, Chinese Communism would be as antiquated as American Democracy.

   • 2022 June 4, Vic Chiang, “Tiananmen vigils gain prominence in Taiwan as Chinese threat looms”, in The Washington Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 June 2022, Asia‎:

     On the 33rd anniversary of the crushing of pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, Taiwan has emerged as one of the last places in the Chinese-speaking world remembering the deaths of thousands at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party, after authorities banned such demonstrations in Hong Kong.

   • 2022 October 8, Keith Bradsher, “China’s Communist Party Congress: What It Means for Business”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Ocotober 2022, Dealbook Newsletter‎:

     Mr. Xi drew thunderous applause in 2021 in Tiananmen Square, on the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, when he reiterated China’s claim to Taiwan, a self-ruled island democracy.

   • 2023 March 13, Eric Cheung, Nectar Gan, “Taiwan says soldier who went missing has been found in China”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 13 March 2023‎:

     In recent years, Beijing has ramped up economic, diplomatic and military pressure on Taiwan – a self-ruling democracy the Chinese Communist Party claims as its own despite having never governed it.

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