Dai Jitao Thought (Chinese:戴季陶主義;pinyin:Dài Jìtáo Zhǔyì;Wade–Giles:Tai4 Chi4-t’ao2 Chu3-i4;lit. 'Dai-Jitao-ism') orDai Jitao Doctrine[1] is an ideology based on the interpretation of theTridemism by someKuomintang members, includingDai Jitao, sinceSun Yat-sen's death in March 1925. Dai Jitao Thought became the ideological foundation of the right wing Kuomintang, including theWestern Hills Group.[2][3] Dai Jitao himself described it as "Pure Tridemism" (纯粹三民主义).
Dai Jitao opposedleft-wing Kuomintang'sMarxist interpretation of Sun's concept of "Mínshēng" as aclass struggle.[4]
Dai was aHan Chinese nationalist; he identified the ancestors ofnon-Chinese minorities asethnic Han and advocated the unity ofZhonghua minzu, and he saw all the people ofQing territory asChinese people.[5]
Some scholars argue that Dai Jitao Thought fused the content ofBuddhist nationalism andconservative nationalism. Dai Jitao andChiang Kai-shek's Tridemism reflects the characteristics ofcultural nationalism andcultural conservatism.[6][7][8]
In the succeeding generation of the 1930s and 1940s, the National Government's very inclusiveness accommodated a range of sub-groups ranging from the 'left' Guomindang (Gan Naiguang) to other more narrow technocrats who contributed to the Administrative Efficiency writings or worked in the Examination Yuan and Ministry of Personnel, to individuals on the far right like Dai Jitao, who was the head of the Examination Yuan-all of whom, at the very least, paid lip service to the ideal of civil service examinations.
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