I'm primarily interested in the formation of the CCP, civil war, and history since, though I figure it's probably good to know what happened during the republic and Qing dynasty as well.
I'm primarily interested in the formation of the CCP, civil war, and history since, though I figure it's probably good to know what happened during the republic and Qing dynasty as well.
Is that the proper term? I've only heard CCP before.
Its CPC, The Communist Party of China, CCP is a colloquial term used solely in the west.
Not even the west, I think it's almost exclusively used in the US, and even then CPC is used in all official documents and academic works. It's just one of those weird naming things, like no one calls Russia the Russian Federation outside of official documents.
The CPC is almost solely referred to in political rhetoric over here, and "Chinese Communist Party" is rhetorically useful. It is one syllable shorter, it front-loads and alliterates the two scary words, and it implies the party is effectively the state - as opposed to "party of China" which implies more of a separation of roles (and perhaps some nuance).
I think that's reading too much into it on the implying the party is effectively the state (which also isn't exactly wrong). Like when I see Chinese Communist Party I just think communist party in China, same with British Labour Party. I don't really how swapping the words rhetorically implies anything relating to the state. At most it's using Chinese as a xenophobia inducing adjective on communism.