Resolutions Presented to the Twelfth Meeting of
the Standing Committee of the Guomindang
Central Executive Committee
(March 16, 1926)¹
2. Draft resolution put forward by the Propaganda Department regarding the
problem of the Sun Yatsenism [Sun Wenzhuyi] Study Society in Beijing, Shanghai, and other places.

Explanation: The news columns of the Beijing Jingbao for February 12 contain two items regarding the recent situation of the Beijing Sun Yatsenism Study
Society. In brief, the contents are that the Sun Yatsenism Study Society is an
organization based on prior consultation among comrades in various places.
Consequently, after it was first established in Guangzhou, in less than two
months it was also established in more than ten places one after the other,
including Shanghai, Beijing, Zhejiang, Nanjing, Wuhu, Wuhan, Jiujiang,
Chongqing, Chengdu, Chaozhou, Shantou, and Xi'an. Since the Western Hills
Conference ² decided to remove Communists from membership in the party and
dissolve party organs at various levels controlled by the Communists, they have
ordered the reregistration of all party members. The Beijing Sun Yatsenism
Study Society, in order to support the real Guomindang and the movement to
purge the party, have published manifestos and so on, especially in the recent
past. It is also reported that the Executive Committee of this society has recently
decided that the Sun Yatsenism Study Society should have publications appearing at fixed intervals everywhere. Already there are the Guangzhou Guomin
geming, the Shanghai Geming daobao, the Zhejiang Sun Wenzhuyi xunkan, the
Nanjing Guomin xunkan, and so on, and it has been decided that publications of
a similar type should be issued, and so on. Also, according to the reports in the
Jingbao, the Beijing Sun Yatsenism Study Society has been organized exclusively by a small number of reactionaries belonging to the Western Hills Faction.
Consequently, the Propaganda Department considers that the Central Committee
should send a circular to party offices at all levels, proclaiming that this society
is a reactionary body. In order to prevent such confusion resulting from the use
of similar names, the Central Committee should also write to the Sun Yatsenism
Study Societies in Guangzhou, Chaozhou, Shantou, and other such places declaring that relations are being broken off with them, and a declaration should also
be sent to the Beijing Municipal Party Office.

Decision: To deal with the matter using the methods proposed by the Propaganda Department.

3. Draft resolution proposed by the Propaganda Department regarding the request from the Guangzhou Sun Yatsenism Study Society for financial aid, and
the revision of the statutes.

Explanation: The said society's earlier request for financial assistance from
the Central Committee was handed over to the Propaganda Department to investigate and report back. Now, on the basis of a further communication from the
society in question, together with its statutes, the Propaganda Department considers that the financial assistance could be accorded, to the amount of 300 yuan
a month, as requested by the society. There are, however, two points that should
be changed in the society's statutes. (1) From the organizational standpoint, the
said society has not yet clearly defined its relations with the party offices, and
some such provision as "will be subject to the guidance and supervision of the
Central Executive Committee of the Guomindang" should be added. (2) If it is a
body that engages in action, the said society has a certain similarity to an organization of our party and could easily fall into the danger of independent or
individual action vis-à-vis the organization; if it is a research body, it should
accept the guidance of the Propaganda Department.

Decision: Adopted. A letter should also be written to the Sun Yatsenism
Society asking them to amend their statutes and to send the new version.

4. The Propaganda Department proposes a resolution to the effect that, since the
Shanghai Geming daobao is an organ of the bogus central organ,³ we should ask

3. I.e., of the rival Central Executive Committee, which had just been set up in Shanghai by Lin Sen and other anti-Communist leaders.


--- Notes

Our source for this document is Zhongguo Guomindang diyi, er ci quanguo daibiao dahui
huiyi shiliao, Vol. 1, pp. 504-07.
1. Mao, who was not a member of the Standing Committee of the Central Executive
Committee, attended this meeting as a nonvoting delegate in his capacity as acting head of
the Propaganda Department of the Guomindang. Proposals Nos. 2, 3, 4, and 5 are described as having been made by the Propaganda Department. Proposal No. 7, which bears
Mao's name, was presumably put forward on his personal initiative. Proposals Nos. 1 and
6, which do not involve Mao, are omitted here.
2. Regarding the meeting of right-wing Guomindang leaders opposed to collaboration
with the Communists in the Western Hills near Beijing, see above, the texts of November
and December 1925, and in particular "The Beijing Right-Wing Meeting and
Imperialism" and "The Greatest Talent of the Right Wing" of December 20, 1925, and
the notes thereto.