“Heavy Revolution: Resilience, Cost, and Prospects of the Chinese Communist Party’s Past Century”

The Chinese Communist Party was founded in 1920 and held its first national congress in 1921, officially entering China’s history. After experiencing various storms and waves in China and the world in the 20th century, it has not only ruled the mainland for more than 70 years, but also led China onto the world stage, becoming a powerful country that competes with the Western system.

Over the past century, the CCP has caused many major disasters to the Chinese people and paid a bloody price, but it has also basically solved China’s poverty, backwardness, weakness, and chaos. In the near term, China’s foreign policy not only continues to threaten the survival of the Republic of China, but also highlights the significant significance of Taiwan’s development path for the Chinese nation in the comparison between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait.

On the centennial anniversary of the CCP, we invite three scholars who have deep professional research on the history and prospects of the CCP to hold three lectures. Taiwan’s fate is to a considerable extent tied to whether the CCP will adhere to civilized values and pursue world peace and development in the future. For Taiwan and the world, the Fair Winds Foundation and the magazine “Thought” sincerely invite everyone to participate in this series of lectures to gain a deeper understanding of the CCP and pay attention to its development. The lecture series will be conducted online via the ZOOM conference system, and the organizer will send the conference link based on the registration information. Registration URL: https://forms.gle/ctLoDptvDfRZcjBV8

• Series 1: Mao’s Marxist-Leninist Holy King’s Way, 1941-1945
  Time: Saturday, August 21, 2021 3 PM—5 PM
  Speaker: Chen Yong-fa (Academician of the Academia Sinica/Communications Researcher of the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica)
  Moderator: Chien Yong-hsiang (Editor-in-Chief of “Thought” Magazine/Researcher of the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica)
   
• Series 2: How the Chinese Communist Party Changed from a Leftist Perspective
  Time: Saturday, August 28, 2021 3 PM—5 PM  Speaker: Huang Te-Pei (Professor of the Institute of Social Development, Shih Hsin University)
  Moderator: Lin Chai-chue (Publisher of Linking Publishing Co., Ltd.)
   
• Series 3: The Continuation and Development of the Party System
  Time: September 4, 2021 (Saturday) 15:00-17:00 Speaker: Wu Yu-shan (Academician of the Academia Sinica/Specially Appointed Researcher of the Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica)
  Moderator: Ko Chine-wen (Professor of the Department of Political Science and the Institute of East Asian Studies, National Chengchi University/Senior Researcher of the National Academy of China Studies)

Organizer: Fair Winds Foundation, “Thought” Magazine Co-organizer: Linking Publishing Co., Ltd., Storm Media Contact Number: 02-2752-1700

Featuring:

Series 1: “Centennial History of the Chinese Communist Party”

1. Speaker: Academician Chen Yong-fa received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history from National Taiwan University, Ph.D. in History from Stanford University, Special Research Fellow at the Institute of Modern History of Academia Sinica, and Academician of Academia Sinica. He is an authority on the study of the history of the Chinese Communist Party. He has written Making Revolution: The Chinese Communist Movement in Eastern and Central China, 1937-1945 (1986); Shadow over Yan’an (1990); and Seventy Years of the Chinese Communist Revolution: From Revolution to Abandoning Revolution (1998), as well as articles such as “Yan’an’s ‘Revolutionary Opium’: Mao Zedong’s Secret Weapon” and “The Critical Year: Chiang Kai-shek and the Great Defeat of Yu Xiangguo”.
    
2. Moderator: Professor Chien Yong-hsiang is editor-in-chief of “Thought” magazine, Adjunct Research Fellow at the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences of Academia Sinica. Graduated from the Department of Philosophy of National Taiwan University, he was a research fellow at the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences of Academia Sinica. His research interests include Hegelian philosophy, the history of Western political thought, contemporary political philosophy, and ethics. He has written On Desire and Nothingness: Political Ethics in Modern Situations (2001), Emotional Reasoning: Political Philosophy as Moral Practice (2014), and other books.

Series 2 “Centennial History of the Chinese Communist Party”

3. Speaker: Professor Huang Te-pei
   Currently teaching at the Department of Social Development of Shih Hsin University, his research focuses on the political and economic changes of mainland China and labor politics. He likes to observe and study the world we live in from a left-wing perspective. He believes in the importance of the unity of theory and practice. Therefore, in addition to teaching and research, he often participates in Taiwan’s labor movement and social movements, hoping to make our society develop in a better direction. He is currently writing a book entitled “A Century of the History of the Chinese Communist Party” to look at the development of the Chinese Communist Party from a left-wing perspective.
    
4. Lin Chai-chue, the publisher, was born in 1951 in Taimali Township, Taitung County. He was a professor at the Department of History of Tunghai University from 1979 to 2001. During his tenure as chairman of the Taipei Book Fair Foundation, he promoted French literature and cultural exchange between Taiwan and France, and was awarded the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. He received the Golden Tripod Award for Special Contributions to Books in 2012. His research focuses on Taiwan’s literature during the Japanese occupation and modern Chinese and Western thought history. In the publishing field, he is committed to promoting books on humanities and social sciences.
    
5. Academician Wu Yushan is an academician of the Academia Sinica, a special research fellow at the Institute of Political Science of the Academia Sinica, a joint professor of the Department of Political Science of National Taiwan University, and the first Luo Jialun lecturer of Central University. Since 2017, he has been an honorary professor at Sun Yat-sen University, and since 2018, he has been a lecturer at National Chengchi University. He has served as the convener of the political science discipline of the National Science Council and the chairman of the Chinese Political Science Association. His research areas include political and economic transformation of socialist countries, democratization and constitutional design, cross-strait relations and international relations theory. The research areas include Taiwan, mainland China, Eastern Europe and Russia. He has long led the theoretical research on the semi-presidential system in Taiwan and the research on cross-strait relations in Taiwan. He has published more than 24 Chinese and English monographs and more than 150 Chinese and English journal and monograph papers.

Host Professor Kou Chien-wen
Currently professor of the Department of Political Science and the Institute of East Asian Studies at National Chengchi University, and director of the National Relations Center. Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Texas at Austin. Former executive director of the Department of Business Administration and Executive Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies, Chief Secretary, Consultation Committee of the Mainland Affairs Council, and Chairman of the Taiwan Political Science Association. Research areas include CCP politics, political elites, and comparative communist studies. He has published articles in China Quarterly, China Journal, Issues & Studies, and many TSSCI journals, and has written several books in Chinese and English, including “The Evolution of CCP Elite Politics: Institutionalization and Power Transfer, 1978-2010” (Revised Third Edition, 2010), “Aiming at the Eighteenth National Congress: The Fifth Generation of CCP Leaders” (2012) (co-authored with Cai Wenxuan), and several edited volumes. He is currently studying the impact of Xi Jinping’s political character on the development and decision-making of CCP politics.