Leaning to the Left: The Political Reorganisation of Chinese Women Activists within the CCP United-Front Framework (1945-1949)
Journal: Research Portal (King's College London)
Year: 2017

The political transformation and reconstruction in China after the Second World War was marked by the Communist Party’s successful implementation of the united front framework (tongyi zhanxian 统一战线) in the Kuomintang-controlled areas, in order to form a political coalition against the Kuomintang regime and to found a “new China” in 1949. Chinese women activists, who had established a variety of resistance organisations and built connections with different political parties and groups during the