Most of the research on the concept of "political party" often neglects the non-Western history of this concept (with the exception of Russia), and the scholars who deal with it usually remain within the limits of a national framework. We intend to compensate at least in part for this lack. With the aim of disclosing the complexity of the production and transmission of concepts at the beginning of the 20th century, we will deal with a brief episode in the global history of the political party. We will study the history of dang - An imperial term increasingly associated with the Euro-American concept of "party" in the late 19th and early 20th centuries-and the transcontinental hazards of this concept between East Asia and the Americas. We will more particularly focus on the dang of late 19th century Chinese reformers. This dang emerged in in the Qing empire in 1895 after the Sino-Japanese war and in 1898 it managed to become a faction at the court of the emperor Guangxu. After a palace coup expelled it from China, the dang of the reformers was reorganized as an association in exile, and while its leaders extended it to different parts of the world-from Asian to the Americas, from Japan to Malasia, from Australia to Peru-, the dang was increasingly associated with the concept of "political party" in the Western world. This history will help us elucidate the way in which the concept of political party in China was related not only to the discussions and decisions of the leaders of this transcontinental association, but also, and more generally, to the way in which the production of concepts is related to social experience. © 2018 Departamento de Literatura Espan-Universidad de Sevilla. All rights reserved.

China Political party Chinese reformers Political concepts Americas Qing dynasty

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