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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.
This is one scene of Chapter 4 — The United Front Marches North in China in Revolution, 1911–1949.
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