Chinese Communist Party

The Chinese Communist Party is a Marxist political party in China founded in 1921. Its chairman is Mao Tse-Tung. The Chinese Communist Party was once part of the Republic of China's government, along with the Kuomintang. In 1925 the party attempted a revolution against the nationalist government. This revolution was crushed in 1927 and the party's membership was nearly wiped out by Nationalist forces. The party saved itself by retreating to northwestern China in the Long March. The Communists eventually rebuilt and fought the Kuomintang but established a popular front with the Kuomintang suring the Second Sino-Japanese War and later in the long resistance to the Race's rule in China. When the Chinese briefly liberated the city of Shanghai from Race rule in 1964, the CCP was the senior partner in the popular front, being larger and stronger than the Kuomintang.