Taiwanese People's Party

Taiwanese People's Party
臺灣民眾黨
Founded10 July 1927 (1927-07-10)
DissolvedAugust 1931 (1931-08)
HeadquartersTaichū, Japanese Taiwan
Ideology
Party flag
Taiwanese People's Party
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese臺灣民眾黨
Simplified Chinese台湾民众党
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinTáiwān Mínzhòng Dǎng
Southern Min
Hokkien POJTâi-oân Bîn-chiòng Tóng
Japanese name
Kanji臺灣民眾黨
Kanaたいわんみんしゅうとう
Transcriptions
RomanizationTaiwan Minshu-tō
The original party flag, 2 January 1929 – 6 October 1929
Party members on 18 February 1931
Chiang Wei-shui's body was covered with the party's original flag during his funeral[2]

The Taiwanese People's Party, founded in 1927, was nominally Taiwan's first political party, preceding the founding of the Taiwanese Communist Party by nine months. Initially a party with members holding moderate and conservative views, by the time of its banning, on 18 February 1931, it had become a solidly leftist, workers-oriented party. In a political atmosphere increasingly dominated by the rise of Japanese fascism, the party never participated in electoral politics.

  1. ^ Shih-Shan Henry Tsai (2010). Whither Taiwan and Mainland China: National Identity, the State, and Intellectuals. Hong Kong University Press. pp. 145–146.
  2. ^ 蔣渭水最後的驚嘆號-崇隆大眾葬紀錄時代心情, 蔣渭水文化基金會