Bidaud, S., “La France face à l'émergence du communisme en Chine (1920-1928): la tentation de l'endiguement”, (2004)

Title : “La France face à l'émergence du communisme en Chine (1920-1928): la tentation de l'endiguement”,

Author(s) : Bidaud, S.

Year : 2004

Type : Journal article

Subject : History

Keywords : foreigners;political;communist;party;police;concession;France;French

Journal : Relations internationales,

Volume : 118

Start page : 155

End page : 168

Language:Name : French

Support : Print

Abstract : When the communist movement appears in China in 1920, its demands - the abolition of the Unequal Treaties, the retrocession of the concessions - did not fail to attract the attention of other great powers, and of France in particular. In order to defend their prerogatives in China and to prevent Indochina from contracting the 'Bolshevist virus', the French implemented a policy of 'containment'. This policy led France to be increasingly involved in the 'Communist issue', to the extent of taking part in the physical elimination of Shanghai's Chinese Communists, as Malraux relates in La Condition Humaine.

Note : [France and the emergence of communism in China (1920-1928): the temptation of the containment]