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Turning point · China in Revolution, 1911–1949
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4 Jun 1928 — Japanese Kwantung Army officers dynamite Zhang Zuolin’s train under his own capital, gambling his death will deliver Manchuria. His son Zhang Xueliang instead raises the Nationalist flag. Tokyo punishes no one — the army has learned it can make policy by murder.
This is one scene of Chapter 5 — The Purge and the Nanjing Decade in China in Revolution, 1911–1949.
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