Young China Party
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Chinese Youth Party
中國青年黨 |
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| Chairman | Wu Wenzhou |
| Founded | December 2, 1923 in Paris, France |
| Headquarters | 2F, No.61, Wenhua Rd., Douliu, Yunlin County, Taiwan (ROC) |
| Ideology |
Chinese nationalism, Anti-communism |
| Political position | Right-wing to Far-right |
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| www.cct-tw.com | |
The Young China Party (YCP), also known as the Chinese Youth Party (Chinese: 中國青年黨) is a minor political party in the Republic of China. Before the end of martial law, it was, with the Kuomintang and the China Democratic Socialist Party, one of three legal political parties in the Republic of China on Taiwan.
The Young China Party was founded by a group of Chinese students in Paris on December 2, 1923. Their name was inspired by the Young Turks. Given China's weakened condition in the early 1920s, the YCP's primary platform was to advocate the elimination of China's warlords and the establishment of a strong central government. It also promoted a nationalist agenda which focused on the abolition of the special privileges and extraterritoriality which foreign powers had obtained in China during the final years of the Qing Dynasty. It was also strongly anti-communist.
Tseng Ch'i (曾琦 Zeng Qi), the party's first chairman, and other YCP founders such as Li Huang (李璜), Ho Lu-tse (何魯之 He Luzhi) and Li Pu-wei (李不韙 Li Buwei) returned to China starting in 1924. The YCP then established party organizations in Shanghai, other major Chinese cities, and among overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia. From its foundation, the YCP's rank and file strength consisted mainly of students and intellectuals.
Initially called the China National Youth Corps, the YCP acquired its current name during its fourth national convention in September 1929. During the Northern Expedition, the party supported the northern warlords because they opposed the Communists within the First United Front. After the anti-communist purge, they still resisted the KMT because of its one-party state.
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