The Founding of a Party

The Founding of a Party (建黨偉業)

Year : 2011

Director : Huang Jianxin

Han Sanping

Cast
Andy Lau as Cai E (蔡鍔)

Chow Yun-fat as Yuan Shikai (袁世凱)

Zhou Xun as Wang Huiwu (王會悟)

Chang Chen as Chiang Chungcheng (蔣中正)

Plot

The story is about the founding of the Communist Party of China.

From the outbreak of the Revolution in 1911, China is marked by political disunity and a handful of individuals, including Mao Zedong, Li Dazhao, and Zhou Enlai, envision a unified China, 1911 Xinhai Revolution ended centuries of dynastic rule in the country. After World War I, the Western Allies gave Tsingtao and Kiaochow Bay to the Empire of Japan at the Treaty of Versailles, stirring sentiments amongst China’s youth, leading to the May Fourth Movement of 1919. In March 1920, Grigori Voitinsky comes to China in an attempt to spread communism to the Far East and, on 22 July 1921, 13 representatives from throughout China meet in a Shanghai’s women’s dormitory to found what would become the Chinese Communist Party.