18 July 1922

Ukaze on a Rag

The Communist International (Comintern) in Moscow on 18 July 1922 issues the order that the Chinese Communist Party should move from Shanghai to Canton. This measure aims to stimulate cooperation with the southern based "bourgeois" Revolutionaries, later to be the Kuomintang. The ukaze is typed on a scrap of textile and travels along the Siberian route towards China, hidden in the clothes of Comintern agent Henk Sneevliet, alias Philipp, alias Maring (1883-1942). The Chinese communists are accountable to him in all respects. Since July 1922, the ChCP is officially the Chinese section of the Comintern, and the Comintern has decided that China is not ready for communism yet.

See also:

•  Henk Sneevliet papers (in Dutch)

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