The Chinese Communist Party at 100: Nothing to Celebrate
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There is a famous story, familiar to anyone who has studied modern Chinese history, about the First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. Originally held at a girls’ school in Shanghai’s French Concession (current site of the reliably cringeworthy Xintiandi), the gathering had to relocate, as a result of official pressures, to a boat on a lake in Jiaxing, Zhejiang. Cunningly concealing the meeting from spying eyes by setting up mahjong tables and pretending to be gambling whenever another boat approached, the Party’s charter, unable to be completed and passed in Shanghai, was finally certified on Jiaxing’s South Lake.
The Chinese Communist Party at 100: Nothing to Celebrate
The Chinese Communist Party at 100: Nothing…
The Chinese Communist Party at 100: Nothing to Celebrate
There is a famous story, familiar to anyone who has studied modern Chinese history, about the First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. Originally held at a girls’ school in Shanghai’s French Concession (current site of the reliably cringeworthy Xintiandi), the gathering had to relocate, as a result of official pressures, to a boat on a lake in Jiaxing, Zhejiang. Cunningly concealing the meeting from spying eyes by setting up mahjong tables and pretending to be gambling whenever another boat approached, the Party’s charter, unable to be completed and passed in Shanghai, was finally certified on Jiaxing’s South Lake.