Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow and the Chinese Revolution - KU ...

occasionally turned up with deep scratches on his face, which we took
as evidence of connubial incompatibility. Be that as it may, his lusty
Russian bride stayed in Russia when he returned to China. Liang
Kan-ch'ao, a Kwangtung native who had graduated in Whampoa
Military Academy's first class, went to Sun Yat-sen University in 1926.
He had a stormy disposition and enjoyed controversy. He also had a
resounding voice and a thick skin; and in meetings when statements
rolled from his mouth in stentorian tones, there was the aura of a
stereotype hero about him. The vice-rector of Sun Yat-sen University,
Kuchumov, once good naturedly dubbed him "the leader of the oppressed
peoples." Lu, Liang, and others went back to China, as I
recall it, in the summer of 1928, and they doubtless began sowing the
seeds of Trotskyism in China. The secret Trotskyite organization at
Sun Yat-sen University, I know, entrusted them with this mission.
The Trotskyite opposition's activities in China were strengthened
when in September, 1929, the following members of the secret Trotskyite
organization returned to China from Moscow: Ou Fang, Chang
Fang, Shih Shou-yun, Ch'en I-mou, Sung Feng-ch'un, Li Mei-wu, Hsu
Chen-an, Fu Jen-lin, and others. About the same time, Liu Jen-ching
returned to China from the Soviet Union, bringing with him a program
for China drafted by Trotsky himself. By then, the Chinese Trotskyites
who had returned to China ahead of Liu already had launched some
organizational activities, however, and factions mushroomed in the
Chinese Trotskyite movement in China proper.
Indications are that the first general meeting of Chinese Trotskyite
oppositionists was held in Shanghai in January, 1930. The meeting apparently
lasted for three days, during which it endorsed Trotsky's
political platform and adopted, as its main policy, opposition to Stalin
and to the "opportunist" leadership of the CC of the CCP. Presumably,
then, from an organizational standpoint, the transplantation of Trotskyism
to China was completed by January, 1930. The undertakings
of this group opened a Chinese front for the world-wide Trotskyite
war against the Stalinists; yet another foreign Buddha's shrine was thus
erected in China.
At this initial Trotskyite meeting in Shanghai, the Chinese opposition
apparently elected a General Committee of Executives (Tsung
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