Dai Jitao Thought

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Dai Jitao Thought (Chinese: 戴季陶主義; pinyin: Dài Jìtáo zhǔyì; lit. 'Dai Jitaoism') or Dai Jitao Doctrine[1] is the body of political ideas developed by the far-right politician Dai Jitao.[2] It is an ideology based on the interpretation of the Tridemism by some Kuomintang members, including Dai Jitao, since Sun Yat-sen's death in March 1925. Dai Jitao Thought became the ideological foundation of the right-wing Kuomintang, including the Western Hills Group.[3][4] Dai Jitao himself described it as "Pure Tridemism" (纯粹三民主义; Chúncuì sānmín zhǔyì).

Dai Jitao opposed the left-wing Kuomintang's Marxist interpretation of Sun's concept of "Mínshēng" as a class struggle.[5]

Dai was a Han Chinese nationalist; he identified the ancestors of non-Chinese minorities as ethnic Han and advocated the unity of Zhonghua minzu, and he saw all the people of Qing territory as Chinese people.[6]

Some scholars argue that Dai Jitao Thought fused the content of Buddhist nationalism and conservative nationalism. Dai Jitao and Chiang Kai-shek's Tridemism reflects the characteristics of cultural nationalism and cultural conservatism.[7][8][9]

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