Chinese Revolution · TURNING POINT ·
Huanggutun Incident (1928)
On the Chinese Revolution map as “Huanggutun”
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.
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- Shanghai purge and Nanjing decade (chapter 5 of Chinese Revolution)
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- China in Revolution, 1911–1949
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