Ethnicity and the Frontiers:Disparities between Kuomintang,CPC,and the Soviet Union with regard to Ethnic Issues in Border Regions,1917-1928
In the 1920,in order to safeguard the geopolitical interests of the Soviet Union and enhance the commu-nist movement,the Comintern devoted itself to the Bolshevization of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China.The Kuomintang,the nationalist party that sought to push revolution to the frontiers,had a relatively weak understanding of the"national attributes"of the frontier regions,so it had no intention of accepting the So-viet theory of nationalities.The nationalism of the Kuomintang is the political proposition of upholding the self-determination of the"Great Chinese Nation",with the Han nationality as the core,against imperialism.The Kuomintang was committed to the establishment of a"great Chinese national state"based on the assimilation of the ethnic minorities into the Han Chinese.In contrast,the CPC is more sensitive to the"ethnic attributes"of the border areas.The nationalism of the proletarian party advocates the self-determination of the Chinese nation(all ethnic groups in China included)against imperialism,and the self-determination of the Han workers and peas-ants and the"toiling masses"of the ethnic minorities against the Han warlords and the upper echelons of the eth-nic minorities.The CPC advocates the establishment of an independent and unified"commoners state"dominat-ed by the proletarians.The fact that KMT and the CPC have diametrically opposite approaches to nationalism re-fleets their different perceptions on the path towards national unification and state formation on the one hand,and their common pursuit of a reshaped political pattern of"great unification"on the other.
the Communist Party of ChinaKuomintangSoviet Unionnational self-determinationborder region
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