ABSTRACT
The Nationalist Government of China gained its power after the overthrow of the north China warlords while the People’s Government, newly set up in Peking, in turn overthrew the Kuomintang (KMT). The rapid growth of the Kungchantang (KCT) made the KMT members uneasy and apprehensive. The Nationalist Government at Nanking ordered a purge and issued a proclamation stating that if the KCT wished to dominate the Party, it would mean the end of co-operation. Chinese Communism is believed to have been introduced to China after the success of the Russian Revolution by two well-known Chinese scholars—Chen Tu-hsiu and Li Ta-chao—both professors at the National Peking University. As early as 1925, when Communist influence was at its height, the seed of dissension with the KMT had already been sown.
