Kuomintang Shanghai Party Department Party Affairs Research (1927-1929)

In 1927, after Party purge, in order to organize the party affairs, Kuomintang (KMT) launched a large number of policies. Now we can divide these policies into three categories:organize the party affairs after Party purge; organize the party affairs in the period of the central special committee; organize the party affairs after the Fourth Plenary Session of 2nd KMT central committee.Before the establishment of the Shanghai branch, Kuomintang was set up an execution unit in Shanghai. It sets up in 1924 after the First National Congress on behalf of the KMT. After the Western Hill Conference, Western Hill Conference Fiction control the Shanghai execution unit and set up a pseudo central in Shanghai, KMT split into two factions and conflicted with each other, one support Guangzhou, another one support Shanghai. In view of the fact that the execution unit of Shanghai has been controlled by the "pseudo central" lost the value of existence. Therefore, in 1926, Kuomintang decided to set up a new organization to replace the execution unit after Second National Congress, responsible for leading the KMT members in Shanghai. The newly established organization has always been controlled by the Left Wing. When the Northern Expeditionary Army occupied Shanghai, they control the Shanghai provisional government. Because of the important position of Shang Hai and the Party branch has a "Left Wing" inclination. Chiang Kai Shek mobilized the army and implemented a campaign called "Clean the Party" in order to restructured the Party branch of Shanghai.On account of the damage for the "Clean the Party" campaign, KMT decided to reorganize the Party Affairs. During the April 12th in 1927, the arrangement of Party Affairs consists of three aspects, which included organizational reconstruction, Party members seeking and review of Party members. However, it did not achieve the expected effect, instead of making a large number of corrupt officials, local tyrants and evil gentry, speculators took the opportunity to mix the party. It caused great damage to the Kuomintang itself. With the increasingly tense situation, the arrangement of Party Affairs has not been finished yet.As Chiang Kai Shek lost the power and "Ning Han confluence", the special central committee was set up by Western Hill Conference Fiction. At the same time, they reorganized the party headquarters in Shanghai. The new party headquarters announced a series of measures to organize the party, but because of contradictions within the party and the lack of funding is difficult to implement. Also, the work of Party Affairs has stalled because all of the executive members of party headquarters in Shanghai which has been nominated by the special central committee resigned.In February 1928, the Kuomintang held its Fourth Plenary Session of 2nd KMT central committee. In this conference, Chiang Kai Shek returned to power and decided to send party guidance committee to all provinces and some special city for rearrange the Party Affairs. This arrangement included the organization of Party members total examination and general registration, reconstruction of the Shanghai City Committee of grassroots organizations, Party members to carry out training and so on. In 1929, Shanghai Executive Committee announced to be establishment, which indicated the arrangement has been finished.After the three times of Arrangement Party Affairs, the numbers of the member in Shanghai Headquarters has been increasingly declined. But consistent with the "Great Revolution" period, young students are still the main, followed by workers and small businessmen in this period. Most of them are young, general economic conditions, to join the Kuomintang during the period of "Great Revolution". In the organization, with the support of the Chiang Kai Shek, through Party consolidation, CC Clique control party headquarters in Shanghai, which control the party after finishing still, continue to strengthen. In terms of ideology, the party's headquarters in Shanghai has been in a "supporting Chiang Kai Shek" but not radical state. On one hand, Chiang Kai Shek's faction has always been firmly in control of the party headquarters in Shanghai from the beginning of Party consolidation to the end. On the other hand, because of the majority of the party members are revolutionary youth who joined the Kuomintang during the Kuomintang's Northern Expedition so even after the "purge", Shanghai local Party headquarters is still very radical. But this did not change the support attitude for Chiang Kai Shek. In other words, Shanghai local Party headquarters support Chiang Kai Shek while without losing the radical. Above all is the basic situation of Shanghai local Party headquarters (KMT) after the three times Arrangement Party Affairs.