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In January 1927, the NRA, commanded by Chiang Kai-shek captured Wuhan and went on to attack Nanchang, and KMT leader Wang Jingwei and his left-wing allies, along with the Chinese Communists and the Soviet agent Borodin, transferred the seat of the Nationalist Government from Guangzhou to Wuhan.
- 12 April-15 April 1927
- Shanghai, China
In the first weeks of 1927 CCP leaders Chen Duxiu and Zhou Enlai, backed by advice from the Comintern, organised three insurrections in Shanghai. In late March 1927, the third and largest of these uprisings removed the Zhili warlord, Sun Chuanfang, from power.
Dec 17, 2020 · December 17, 2020. On March 21-22, 1927, Shanghai fell to a combination of general strike, armed uprising, and the advance of the National Revolutionary Army. Further reading: Steve Smith, A Road Is Made: Communism in Shanghai, 1920-1927.
Nov 5, 2020 · Some names from this episode: Chen Duxiu, General Secretary of the Communist Party Sun Chuanfang, Leader of warlord coalition in China’s southeast Zhang Zongchang, Shandong warlord Li Baozhang, the commander of the garrison of warlord troops in Shanghai Zhou Enlai, Communist commissar who left Whampoa to aid the Shanghai military commission Niu ...
Jan 1, 2023 · Shanghai, China. The Shanghai massacre of 12 April 1927, the April 12 Purge or the April 12 Incident as it is commonly known in China, was the violent suppression of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organizations and leftist elements in Shanghai by forces supporting General Chiang Kai-shek and conservative factions in the Kuomintang (Chinese ...
Nov 12, 2020 · Last episode we talked about the second armed uprising in Shanghai, which took place from February 21 to 23 or 24, 1927, depending on whether you end the uprising with when the Communist Party Central Committee called off the uprising, or when the last clash between Communist workers’ armed pickets and the police took place.
During a general strike on March 22, 1927, Chen Duxiu and Zhou Enlai would lead a group of 5,000 armed workers in the city's third armed uprising. After seizing the city by 6pm, they, along with Soviets organized by strikers, established the Shanghai Provisional Municipal Government along the lines of the Paris Commune . [4]
