Tags: Political Party.
The CC Clique or Central Club Clique was one of the political factions within the Kuomintang (The Chinese Nationalist Party) in the Republic of China. It was led by the brothers Chen Guofu and Chen Lifu friends of Chiang Kai-shek. Chen Lifu and his older brother Chen Guofu were nephews of Chen Qimei who until his assassination by the Chinese warlord Yuan Shih-kai in 1916 was the mentor of upcoming Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek.