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May Thirtieth Incident (1925)

On the Chinese Revolution map as “The May 30th shootings”

30 May 1925 — British-officered police fire into a crowd protesting a Japanese mill’s killing of a worker: eleven dead on Nanking Road. The empire-wide strike wave that follows hands the Canton government a mass movement — nationalism is now the strongest force on this map.

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Site of memory
Chapter
Northern Expedition and United Front (chapter 4 of Chinese Revolution)
Atlas
China in Revolution, 1911–1949
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Map showing May Thirtieth Incident (1925), site of memory in China in Revolution, 1911–1949
SITE OF MEMORY · CHINA IN REVOLUTION, 1911–1949

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