Zeng Qi

Zeng Qi

Zeng Qi (1892-1951), named Muhan, was born in Longchang, Sichuan Province. He was a famous politician in the period of the Republic of China and the founder of the Chinese Youth Party.

Life story

Zeng Qi was born on September 25, 1892 in lianyudang, Xiangshi Town, Longchang City, Sichuan Province. His father, Zeng Yousan, was an official in Guangxi at the end of the Qing Dynasty, so his family moved to Guilin. When Zeng Qi was a child, he received traditional feudal education at home. In the spring of 1908, Zeng Qi was admitted to Guilin middle school. Soon after, his parents died one after another, so he and his brother sold their family property. He helped his parents return to their ancestral home in Sichuan. In the spring of 1909, Zeng Qi was admitted to Chengdu College of higher learning. With Wang Guangqi, Wei Shizhen, Zhou taixuan, Li Jieren and other students. Later, he went to law and politics school, and used his spare time to write review articles for newspapers and periodicals. Therefore, he had a little reputation and was employed as the main writer by Chengdu Business Daily. Before and after the revolution of 1911, Zeng Qi wrote in the communique of the chamber of Commerce and Sichuan communique, and founded the new newspaper of the Republic of China and Qun Bao in Chongqing. He took part in the second revolution in 1913 and went to Japan in 1916. He returned to China in 1918, and in 1919 he participated in the establishment of the young China society. He went to France to study in 1919. On December 2, 1923, the Youth Party of China was founded in the suburbs of Paris, France, as the director of party affairs. The initiators are Zeng Qi, Li Huang, Li Shiwei, Zhang Zizhu and he Luzhi. On October 10, 1924, when he returned to China, the official journal of the Chinese Youth Party (i.e. the nationalist group) founded the weekly "Xingshi" in Shanghai to publicize nationalism and oppose the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. In 1926, the first National Congress of the youth party was elected chairman of the central executive committee. In 1927, he went to Japan because of the conflict with the Kuomintang of China. After returning home, he supported Chiang Kai Shek and opposed the Communist Party. However, during the war of resistance against Japan, he called for the cessation of the civil war and the United resistance against Japan. When the National Political Council was established in 1938, he was employed as a political participant. After Japan surrendered, it took part in the 10th National Congress of the Youth Party and was elected chairman. It opposed the Communist Party and incited Chiang Kai Shek to suppress the Communists. He served as chairman of the presidium of the national assembly in 1946 and was appointed as senior minister of the presidential office in April 1947. Going to the United States in 1948 was one of the 43 war criminals announced by Xinhua news agency in 1948, ranking 42nd. He died in Washington in 1951.

Main achievements

He founded the "nationalist school"

The nationalist group refers to the Youth Party of China. At that time, it carried out activities in public in the name of its peripheral organization "China nationalist Youth League". This political group was organized by some reactionary politicians who took refuge in imperialism and the reactionaries in power and regarded opposition to the Communist Party of China and the Soviet Union as a profession.

The main theory is "the youth of China and the future of the Republic". This group of articles was published and named "national style and youth". Zeng Qi mixed many viewpoints of Fichte, the "father of nationalism", and Western nationalist thoughts, and combined with China's national salvation needs to form the "nationalism" proposition. In his opinion, when the nation is in danger, only by transforming the previous "culturalism" into "nationalism" and arousing the majority of the people to participate in national salvation, can the country survive and develop.

There is no doubt that such a view can win the recognition of many young people. The biggest difference between them and the "cosmopolitanists" is their different attitudes towards Soviet Russia.

Zeng Qi sent the book Guoti and youth to Hu Shi for a preface. Hu Shi wrote a preface to the book in early 1919 and published it in the morning post on February 24.

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