Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China
A graffiti mural in Beijing with the name of the song in simplified Chinese characters
Simplified Chinese没有共产党就没有新中国
Traditional Chinese沒有共產黨就沒有新中國
Hanyu PinyinMéiyǒu Gòngchǎndǎng Jiù Méiyǒu Xīn Zhōngguó

"Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China" is a Chinese Communist Party song, which originated in 1943 in response to the phrase, "Without the Kuomintang there would be no China".[1]

Background

Zhongtang Temple in Tangshang Village, where Cao Huoxing wrote this song in 1943

During World War II when China was fighting the Japanese invasion, Chiang Kai-shek published a book titled China's Destiny  on 10 March 1943, with a slogan that "Without the Kuomintang there would be no China." The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) published an editorial entitled "Without the Communist Party there would be no China" in the Jiefang Daily on 25 August 1943 to criticize the book, concluding that "If today's China had no Communist Party of China, there would be no new China." In October 1943, Cao Huoxing, a 19-year-old member of the Communist Party of China, created the lyrics for "Without the Communist Party There Would Be No New China", based on this.

In 1950, shortly after the foundation of the People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong changed the title to "Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China," by adding the word "new."

The song is included in the 1965 musical The East is Red.

A memorial dedicated to the song in Fangshan District, Beijing, which covers an area of 6,000 square metres (65,000 sq ft), was opened to the public on 26 June 2006.[2]

In June 2021, a 587-meter-long musical road playing the song was built on China National Highway 108 near Xiayunling, where the song was written.[3][4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Ohne die Kommunistische Partei gäbe es kein Neues China" (PDF). 28 September 2007. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
  2. ↑ "Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China background". Archived from the original on 9 January 2021. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
  3. ↑ ""没有共产党就没有新中国"！北京房山有条路，会"唱"这首歌". Beijing Daily. 28 June 2021. Archived from the original on 15 September 2023. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  4. ↑ "壹现场丨会"唱"红歌的马路火遍全网 背后的故事你知道吗？". Beijing Youth Daily. 13 October 2021. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
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