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Update: 12 Oct, 2022 @ 2:00am

-Another revamp of China's party names (hopefully the final one!).

For the purpose of clarity and simplicity, I've decided to break from a previous approach that names Chinese parties based on clique naming. Now China and Chinese warlords' neutral factions will all simply be 'KMT' (Kuomintang), and their fascist factions will be called 'Reorganized KMT'. While it's not necessarily historically accurate to have a political faction called 'Reorganized KMT' at the start of the 1936 scenario, as has been discussed earlier, the name's close affiliation with Wang Jingwei, its leader in vanilla, and his pro-Japanese Reorganized National Government in history still makes this choice reasonable. As for China's democratic faction, choosing the name 'Legislative Yuan' was inspired by the game's recent update that renamed Switzerland's democratic faction with the name of the Swiss legislature. Indeed, given that democratising China (increasing democracy support) in this game can be done through completing a national focus that literally means empowering the Legislative Yuan, this choice seems to be a perfect match

Update: 11 Oct, 2022 @ 6:13am

-Adapting to the game version 1.12
-Switzerland's Federal Assembly is never called the 'Federal Assembly of Cantons', it's just the 'Federal Assembly'. This latest inaccuracy introduced by 1.12 is eliminated outright.

Update: 24 Nov, 2021 @ 9:45pm

-Adapating to the version 1.11
-Changing Chinese democratic parties to KMT (Kuomintang).
There seems to be no appropriate party name for Chinese democratic parties. The previous choice - Political Study Clique of the Kuomintang - is not appropriate since this clique in history was mainly comprised of civilian technocrats supporting Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's regime despite their relatively liberal inclination. Assuming the player chose to democratise China, a democratised and more unified Kuomintang without a specific factional identification should assume the ruling position.

Update: 13 May, 2021 @ 12:01pm

-Japan's fascist party is renamed as 'National Unity Cabinet'. The Japanese Army or military is usually portrayed as the single institution responsible for the leadership at this time. But upon closer inspection, Japan's cabinets between 1932 and 1945 were in fact controlled by a coalition of the ruling elites. In Japan at the time, these cabinets also were not known as military cabinets (gunbu naikaku) but national unity cabinets (kyokoku itchi naikaku). Due to scholars' disagreements on wartime Japan's leadership, it's extremely difficult to select a proper name for Japan's fascist party. I found 'National Unity Cabinet' is the safest option so far since it not only circumvents that controversial question of Japanese wartime leadership but also was a term used by the contemporary Japanese.

Sources:
Japan's cabinet in 1936: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okada_Cabinet
kyokoku itchi naikaku (in Japanese): https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%8C%99%E5%9B%BD%E4%B8%80%E8%87%B4%E5%86%85%E9%96%A3
Steven, R. P. G. (1977). Hybrid Constitutionalism in Prewar Japan. p.123

-Most Thailand (Siam)'s party names I added are removed. This is a result of my new understanding of Thailand's pre-war politics. I no more think it's appropriate to call the democratic party as the civilian faction of Khana Ratsadon. Thailand's early party politics involved many royalists outside Khana Ratsadon. As for Khana Ratsadon, the current neutral party, it was already under actual control of junior officers by 1936 and should not be identified with senior officers. Its leader Phraya Phahon, despite being a senior officer, was merely a figurehead.

Sources:
Riggs, Fred W. (1966). Thailand: The Modernization of a Bureaucratic Polity.
Handley, Paul M. (2006). Handley. The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej.

Update: 14 Nov, 2020 @ 2:25pm

-Japan's fascist party will be called 'Renovationist-Military Coalition'
-Remove party emblem for Japan's fascist party (because the party is neither Taisei Yokusankai or the army, unfortunately, there is no suitable emblem for it)

The conventional understanding that Japan was under a military dictatorship during this period is too simplified. I lean towards the argument that what ruled Japan at the time was a coalition between the military especially the army and civilian bureaucrats who had an agenda to radically reform Japanese system. There are many ways to call this bureaucratic faction, one of which is 'renovationist bureaucrats'. A major disagreement between Kōdōha and Tōseiha, the two army factions that rivalled each other until their showdown in 1936, is the former refused the alliance between the army and renovationist bureaucrats and preferred the army to exert an exclusive control on domestic politics (BTW it is absurd to make Kōdōha a non-aligned party when it was in fact even more fascist than the current Japanese fascist party in vanilla).

Source: Planning for Empire: Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State

I know 'Renovationist-Military Coalition' does not make sense for most people. An alternative could be militarists. However, there are also two issues arising if we implement 'militarists'. First, this designation clashes with the non-aligned Kōdōha since Kōdōha is also a group of militarists. It would be weird to see Kōdoha and militarists present simultaneously on the political pie when Kōdōha theoretically should have been included as part of militarists. Again, if only PDX had made Kōdōha a fascist party and Kōdōha taking power is only changing a name for the ruling fascist party, it would not need be this complicated. Second, 'militarists' is an offensive term used to criticise politicians who support jingoism and military rule. It's too subjective and emotional. It can break immersion if you try to immerse yourself into the role of fascist Japan struggling to 'liberate' Asia. Any suggestion on alternative is greatly appreciated!

Update: 7 Nov, 2020 @ 8:39am

Minor changes mostly to show the mod up-to-date

Update: 23 May, 2020 @ 6:57am

A small change. Now Siam's non-aligned party will be called 'Khana Ratsadon - Military Faction (Senior Officers)' and the fascist party will be called 'Khana Ratsadon - Military Faction (Junior Officers)' to take into account of the history that the leaders of these two parties-Phahon and Phibun-were both considered part of the same faction historically but still came from different leadership generations within the military. The idea originates from @Dr. Fu Manchu.

Update: 12 Apr, 2020 @ 10:37am

-Chinese fascist parties 'KMT Right Wing' all are renamed to 'KMT Right-Wing Clique' to make them have more uniformed style with other Chinese party names
-All 'Xinjiang' are renamed to 'Sinkiang' to make them in line with the country name choice in vanilla. It is also more historical as 'Sinkiang' was how it was called at the time.
-Japanese fascist party and neutral Kodoha party are now named as Military(t) and Military(k) to reflect their affiliation to the military. The full names of the factions are still kept in the in-game long version of the party names.

Update: 21 Mar, 2020 @ 9:25am

--Rework Siamese party names
-Non-Aligned: Khana Ratsadon - military faction. the leader of the Siamese non-aligned party in vanilla 1936 start date is Phraya Phahon, who was the leader of the military faction of Khana Ratsadon (People's Party).
-Democratic: Khana Ratsadon - civilian faction. The first democratically elected prime minister was Pridi Banomyong, who was the leader of the civil faction of Khana Ratsadon.
-Communist: Communist Party of Siam. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Thailand
-Fascist: Thai nationalists. This is @CSRZ's idea. This party was closely related to Phibun (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaek_Phibunsongkhram). But he only appears as its leader in 1939 scenario and 1936 scenario only generates a random leader. Therefore we can't name this party as Phibun's faction until Paradox adjusts this arrangment with a future patch.


--Rework Chinese party names: now most parties are named as Kuomintang with a specific affiliation. Politics in Nationalist China was mostly inter-factional struggle within Kuomintang.

-Nationalist China
-Democratic: Kuomintang - Political Study Clique. The leader in vanilla is Weng Wenhao, who was a member of the Political Study Clique in Kuomintang and the first Chinese Premier after the Nationalist China officially transitioned into the constitutional period from the tutalege period. The Clique was mostly composed of technocrats and bureaucrats with some liberal leaning.
-Fascist: Kuomintang - Right Wing. Naming for Chinese fascists is tricky. Chinese fascist parties in vanilla are used to represent pro-Japanese collaborators. The problem of this naming is historically most people in this faction did not join pro-Japanese regimes. However, it is certain that all Chinese leaders in pro-japanese regimes had right-wing affiliation, which is shown in their emphasis of the casue of anti-communism. While the leader in vanilla Wang Jingwei was a leader of the left-wing Kuomintang, he soon defected to the right wing.
-Non-Aligned: Kuomintang - Whampoa Clique. This is essentially the military faction of Kuomintang, led by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. However, this naming could be problematic if the event chain of Xi'an Incident, in the rare case, ended up replacing him with Wang Jingwei, who was not part of the Whampoa Clique.

-Chinese warlords
-In most cases, democratic, communist and fascist parties have the same name as the Nationalist China
-Non-Aligned: all follow the format of 'Kuomintang + warlord clique name'

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_decade

Update: 14 Mar, 2020 @ 2:33pm

-Because the new expansion divides French neutral approach into three possible routes each relates to one French historical dynasty, it's no longer plausible to call the non-aligned party in France 'Légitimistes', which only represents one route.
-Now Spain and Portugal's party names are the new ones introduced by the vanilla 1.9.
-Clearly, Paradox forgot to change the abbreviation name for Francoist party from original Falange name 'FE de las JONS' to 'FET y de las JONS'. This mod solves it!
-Solves the issue where Party Emblem Mod mistakenly replaces some changes introduced by the 1.9 patch to the Spain and Portugal's party names.
-Because Spain's default fascist party has become CEDA since 1.9 and the PEM still adopts Falange logo for Spain's fascist party, this mod disconnects the logo from general fascism and connects it to falangism. However, when Franco is the leader the party emblem won't show up as Falange logo since Franco's ideology in game is not falangism but either despotism or general fascism.