Weis A (2026)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Thesis
Publication year: 2026
URI: https://ediss.uni-goettingen.de/handle/11858/16596
The study presented here investigates foundational intellectual and personal exchanges of the Chinese Provisional Action Committee of the GMD (Zhongguo Guomindang linshi xingdong weiyuanhui 中國國民黨臨時行動委員會, PAC, today’s Chinese Peasants’ and Workers’ Democratic Party, Zhongguo nonggong minzhudang 中國農工民主黨) as they were formed during a period of partial exile in Weimar Germany under the leadership of Deng Yanda 鄧演達 (1895–1931). The PAC, also referred to as the “Third Party,” was a sovereign Chinese opposition party that was officially founded in Shanghai in August 1930. Although its name derived from an internal conflict of whether to reform the GMD from within or to form a new sovereign party, it ultimately (by 1930) opted for the latter. It was then a party that was republican and parliamentarian, with a cadre that fundamentally originated from the fall of the Wuhan National Government as well as the Chinese student milieu of Weimar Germany. This study examines the PAC as part of China’s moderate parliamentary left-wing in the post-May-Thirtieth era. It is a contribution to the research on Chinese attempts at multipartyism, especially during the period between the April-Twelfth massacre of 1927 and the “Anti-Rightist Campaign” of 1957. I argue that the PAC, in particular, was part of oppositional worldmaking in exchange with intellectuals representing the greater spectrum of German social-democracy, concomitantly providing formative encounters with the League against Imperialism (LAI), the International Socialist Militant-League (Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampf-Bund, ISK), and the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union (BANU, Bŭlgarskiyat zemedelski naroden sŭyuz). The members of the PAC created and acted within a new global space-for-action (as Handlungsraum) which enabled them to do opposition and to envision a new representative parliamentary system for China.
APA:
Weis, A. (2026). The Sino-German Dimensions of China’s ‘Third Party’ between the early 1920s and the World War II Era (Dissertation).
MLA:
Weis, Andreas. The Sino-German Dimensions of China’s ‘Third Party’ between the early 1920s and the World War II Era. Dissertation, 2026.
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