CCP’s approval of ‘Chinese Nation’ - Continuity, discontinuity and Marxism–Leninism -

Chinese Communist Party(hereafter CCP) has changed its attitude to 'Chinese Nation' in its own history. Early CCP suggest 'Federal China' based on independent relationship between Han and other ethnic minors. However, since war against Japan, CCP changed its attitude to ethnic minors and 'Chinese nation'. 'Chinese Nation' was newly approved under the name of 'The Big family of Chinese Nation'. On the other hand, 'Federal China' and 'independence of ethnic minority' was throughly denied. The change had its own logical bases. First, anti-imperialism was important and inherited logic in composing "The Big family of the Chinese Nation". Rhetoric that 'Chinese Nation' must defeat imperialist and recover its supremacy over stolen territory successfully justified Chinese annexation of ethnic minors' before and after the Communist revolution. Second, CCP diffrentiated their 'amalgamation(ronghe)' from prior 'assimilation(tonghua)'. According to CCP, as being 'Chinese nation'. assimilation in Qing dynasty and Nationalist could not be as complete as amalgamation. Unlike assimilation, 'amalgamation' acknowledged the difference between ethnics in china because it regard current 'Chinese nation' as something ongoing. Third, socialism also played its role for legitimacy of 'The Big family of Chinese nation'. CCP asserted that self-determination doctrine of Marxism–Leninism was denied by Marxism–Leninism itself as it gives higher priority to revolution than self-determination. On the condition that imperialist who want frustration of revolution in China, seduced ethnic minorities to give up Chinese revolution by being apart from China and getting self determination, their independence should be abandoned for the greater good of communist revolution. When confronted with the fact that Soviet Union had the federal system with nominal self determination of ethnic groups, CCP emphasized the historical, cultural, and economical difference between China and Soviet Union. The three logical base of CCP's 'The Big family of Chinese Nation', anti-imperialism, amalgamation(ronghe), and Marxism–Leninism, has continuity and discontinuity from 'Chinese nation' of modern China, which means naturalization of Marxist–Leninist party of China.