Chinese Revolution · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Shanghai massacre (1927)
On the Chinese Revolution map as “The Shanghai purge”
12 Apr 1927 — Chiang turns on his communist allies: Green Gang enforcers and soldiers kill hundreds of unionists and militants in a morning, thousands in the weeks after, here and across the south. The First United Front dies in its victory. Remember the date — everything after 1927 follows from it.
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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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