FACTIONALISM IN COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT IN KWANGTUNG

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 22, 2000
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: May 7, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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ctionalisrr in ;onnsun.ist Government in .:urn-igtung
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Abat:ract principles of ideology, iIcrconal loyalty, and ?arty regulations
and discipline undoubtedly play an important part in holding the Cair unist
;arganization together. Itativever, personal relationships are also irr ortant,
at least on upper levels. Communist personnel does not seem to be
completely interchangeable irrespective of personal affiliation.,,
in the early days of the 3ommunist occupation of Canton, persons like the
Chief of the Bureau of public Safety, L:J Chfuan-chin and.
Political Coirxni.ssar of the Canton city garrison, T PIG Tzu-hu_x { F-
c emed at first to have been assembled from various quarters uncle the
A".:joersona.i leadership of "T.'11 Chien yi.ng, But according to some old documents
in Peiping, these men have a long personal relationshi With Y-,~4I. They were
i? tin.ately a.scociatc.Id with 111I in the days of the l ew 1 Army during the
J wnese ::ar, and yE_I took them along, with him .than he was assigned to his
post in 1 wain rtung. Others Yh:;il took v-ith him include people like LITI Cheao
(,411 `a a woman in her t:Arties, formerly YL14's English secretary
,.ripen he was chief of staff of the Chinese Red Arnty. She was educated in
a _ u ssi :)narr acadorr~ in Hong :song, and no:r is chief of t to Aliens
,kdnainistration of the Bureau of Foreign Affairs in Canton.
T-11 adcii tlori to pees anal acquaintances and connections, natives, or people
7`jho spe: : the Cdi alects of the . ast River district, of w ich y :i is a
native, -w ri: also have an easy time -ottin ; into the r overn: nt. T1.s
is true- even of people with questionable backgrounds,, such as landlords
or former :,.uorAfLntan.7 officials. An inco:: ctent -man was appointed to an
L 'iortanb l:espital :-osition in Canton. Politically, he did not seem to
be vex leftist, and persc nally ho was an offensive character, when
sDreone suggested to the chief of the _:rovincial ilealth jcpartment that
trhe Tian should be fired, the chief chrugged his shoulder , saying that
since tzace reran was an ilast JUver native who c,---r- from the same place as
1,I, nothing could be done. Recently, a group of businessman was
assia: n7 rhilc one drafted a telegram in ;glish to settle come uuciness
deal in the United States. Another law7hed at hiar, sayinj-, "This is an
..riper. iaiisti.c language. Thy do you still use it?" The reply was, '^I
have to use either i;n;,lish or the i ast Raver language, -i. " we are gc ng
to do business, In either case, it is not for native tongue." This
is no Joke. It is usually best to select someone r: iao can :peak: ' ,akka
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or Gh' aoch'ou dialect when you want to make an inquiry in a t;overninent
agency, especially local police stations, which are filled with East
River rien. one man got ahead in government h marrying an East River
':roman who could make connections for him.
The domination of 11rar gtung by East River and IIakka people is not
entirely due to Its influence. This district was a base of guerrilla
activities in the anti-Japanese vrar, and Last river natives furnish
by far the largest share of soldiers and Party members in the Comrmaniat
cause. Nevertheless., 1'L :I's influence and exclusive local sectionalism
have .iade the government of iwangturig essentially a monopoly of the
"last iriver people, so. ,thing that increasingly irks people in general.
The e oari..nat ce of local istic and to son, extent personal relations,
however, should not be understood as the only t.lread Iholclin to ether the
(;om uni_st organization. Mere aro many in the ; over cent who have
neither of these connections. Tens of t..ousands of students from high
:;choc is anu:~. colleges t:irou7_rout the country, who are ben absorbed into
.:rc J:Zmuni.st machine, do not share these coz cationsw For them,, the abstract
1 inciplos of ideolo,', loyalty to the group, and discipline are most imq)or-
ant. ,.orm.ver. status and position in c overn-aent are still determined in
.part by tine icrngch of time a man has workked, and in part by his length
(` ), reportedly a native of
she kiang, was supervisor of the Southeast Training Center under
25X1A TAI Li at Ch'i.en hou, akien, in July 1945.
Comment. L Z Chien -ying was born in L eihsi en,
17n I,- ldca merchant.
.rarr ;tang, in c 9 f. the son of a '
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