When the Chinese Communist Party founded the People’s Republic of China in 1949, it inherited a society containing millions of people who had never belonged to the Communist movement.
When Mao Zedong proclaimed the People’s Republic of China on October 1, 1949, the new government was presented not simply as the creation of the Chinese Communist Party but as the product of a broad national coalition.
When Mao Zedong proclaimed the People’s Republic of China on October 1, 1949, the new government was presented not simply as the creation of the Chinese Communist Party but as the product of a broad national coalition.
When Japan surrendered in August 1945, the Chinese Communist Party was no longer the isolated revolutionary movement that had nearly been destroyed two decades earlier.
China’s united front system did not begin as a government department, an overseas influence network, or a method for administering religious and ethnic organizations.