Communist bandit (Chinese: 共匪; pinyin: gòngfei) is an anti-communist insult directed to the Chinese Communist Party. The term originated from the Nationalist Government in 1927.
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Nowadays outside mainland China, some Chinese people use the term "中共" (literally "Chinese Communist") to refer to the communist China or Chinese Communist Party.
Rtymology
The sinograms for "Communist bandits," or gòngfei, can be analysed in the following manner:
- Gòng (Chinese: 共; pinyin: gòng) is a shorter writing for the term meaning Communism (gongchandong).
- Fei (Chinese: 匪; pinyin: fei) means "bandits", and the character used is the combination of the characters for "enclosure" (xi) and the negation (fei), meaning, in aggregate, the Communists were denying what the Kuomintang advocated. The term of fei to excoriate the adversary was first used during the Warlord Era, in the form feifei, or "bandit troops"
Birth of the term
The term of "Communist bandits" to describe the Communist Party of China was first heralded in the tumultuous years of the Chinese Civil War between the Nationalists and the Communists.
On July 15, 1947, the Document 0744 ordered the Chinese Communist Party and its forces to be called "Communist bandits" as a form of rectification of names, to the exclusion of all other terms, such as "Red bandits"
Along with the term fei, tThe term was used in official documents to describe the authorities established on Mainland China and their agencies, and in several slogans such as "Fight against Gongfei's Animalistic Life".
In the 1980s, the term was replaced by "Chinese Communist Authorities."
The term is used today as a slur against Beijing authorities and their sympathizers, particularly by Taiwanese independentists.