1. Etymology

2. History

3. See also

4. References

Communist bandit ({{zh|c=|s=|t=共匪|p=gòngfěi}}) is an anti-communist insult directed to the Chinese Communist Party. The term originated from the Nationalist Government in 1927.

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.^[1][2]

Etymology

The characters for "Communist bandits," or gòngfěi, can be analysed in the following manner:^[3]

1. Gòng ({{zh|c=|s=|t=共|p=gòng}}) is a shorter writing for the term meaning Communism (共產主義).
2. Fěi ({{zh|c=|s=|t=匪|p=fěi}}) means "bandits". The term of fěi to excoriate the adversary was first used during the Warlord Era, in the form feifei, or "bandit troops"

History

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.^[3]

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"(In Chinese 赤匪)^[3]

Along with the term fei, the 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".^[3]

In the 1980s, the term was replaced by "Chinese Communist Authorities."

In 1996, Microsoft halted sales of its Windows 95 operating system in mainland China due to discoveries that it contained the term in Chinese-language input method software bundled with the operating system following police raids on computer stores. ^[4][5][6]

The term is used today as a slur against Beijing authorities and their sympathizers, particularly by Taiwanese independentists.^[7]

See also

• Mandarin Chinese profanity
• Period of mobilization for the suppression of Communist rebellion
• White Terror (Taiwan)

References

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