Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China
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Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China | |||||||||
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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 Pinyin | Méiyǒu Gòngchǎndǎng Jiù Méiyǒu Xīn Zhōngguó | ||||||||
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"Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China" is a Chinese patriotic song in the People's Republic of China, which originated in 1943 in response to the phrase, "Without the Kuomintang there would be no China".[1]
Background[]
During World War II when China was fighting the Japanese invasion, Chiang Kai-shek published a book titled on 10 March 1943, with a slogan that "Without the Kuomintang there would be no China." The Communist Party of China 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, , 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.[2]
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.
On 26 June 2006, a memorial in honour of the song "Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China" was opened in Fangshan District, Beijing, with an area of 6000 m2 (65,000 sq ft).[3]
Lyrics[]
Simplified Chinese | Traditional Chinese | Pinyin | English translation |
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没有共产党就没有新中国 |
沒有共產黨就沒有新中國 |
Méiyǒu Gòngchǎndǎng jiù méiyǒu xīn Zhōngguó. |
Without the Communist Party, there would be no new China. |
See also[]
- "Ode to the Motherland"
- "Sailing the Seas Depends on the Helmsman"
- "The East Is Red"
- Maoism
- Honglaowai
References[]
- ^ "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.
- ^ "人民网--404页面". www.people.cn. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
- ^ Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China background
External links[]
- Mandarin-language songs
- Chinese patriotic songs
- Maoist China propaganda songs