• Friendship, Compartmentalization, and Assassination Squads: Life Underground in Shanghai in the Late 1920s (Part 2)

  • Jan 13 2022
  • Length: 25 mins
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Friendship, Compartmentalization, and Assassination Squads: Life Underground in Shanghai in the Late 1920s (Part 2)

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  • How did the Communist Party try to protect itself in Shanghai? We discuss the compartmentalized party organization and the creation of the Special Services Division.

    Further reading:
    Patricia Stranahan, Underground: The Shanghai Communist Party and the Politics of Survival, 1927-1937
    Timothy Cheek, “Making Maoism: Ideology and Organization in the Yan’an Rectification Movement, 1942-1944”
    Mao Zedong, “Combat Liberalism”
    Xuezhi Guo, China's Security State: Philosophy, Evolution, and Politics

    Some names from this episode:
    Qu Qiubai, Top Communist leader from mid-1927 to mid-1928
    Wang Shiwei, Cadre expelled during Yan’an rectification campaign
    Gu Shunzhang, Zhou Enlai’s deputy in the Special Services Division
    He Zhihua, Zhu De’s former lover from Germany, who betrayed the Communist Party

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