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    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...
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    advanced from Shanghai to Nanjing. According to the archives research "The telegrams sent by the U.S. diplomats [in Berlin] pointed to the massacre of an estimated...
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    referred to this as the 12 April Incident, the White Terror, or the Shanghai Massacre. This incident widened the rift between Chiang and Wang Jingwei, the...
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    the forces of local warlords and foreign imperialists, but the 1927 Shanghai massacre targeting Communists ordered by KMT leader Chiang Kai-shek marked...
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    led by Wang Jingwei. The split was partially motivated by Chiang's Shanghai Massacre of Communists within the KMT, which marked the end of the First United...
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    Communist revolutionary who was executed by the Kuomintang during the Shanghai massacre. Sun Bingwen was born in a merchant family, the ninth of eleven children...
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    Shanghai Commune would lead to the 1927 Shanghai massacre, and the onset of the Chinese Civil War. As Shanghai held a large industrial base, the CCP, who were...
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    when the Shanghai Municipal Police opened fire on Chinese protesters in Shanghai's International Settlement on 30 May 1925 (the Shanghai massacre of 1925)...
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    Chinese Civil War, begun by the Chinese Communists to counter the Shanghai massacre of 1927 by the Kuomintang. The Kuomintang (KMT) left wing established...
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    of leftists and communists in what is known as the Shanghai massacre. As a result of the massacre the Wuhan government chose to split from Chiang which...
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  • notorious Du Yuesheng in Shanghai, who were well-connected with its longtime leader, Chiang Kai-shek. During the Shanghai massacre of 1927, the KMT employed...
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    Chiang's expulsion of the CCP and their Soviet advisers, marked by the Shanghai massacre on 12 April, led to the beginning of the Chinese Civil War. Wang finally...
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    The Shanghai International Settlement (Chinese: 上海公共租界) originated from the merger in the year 1863 of the British and American enclaves in Shanghai, in...
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  • left-right conflict, but became an anti-communist right-wing after Shanghai massacre. Chiangism (or 'Chiang Kai-shek Thought') was related to Confucianism...
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    Green Gang, another Hung Society splinter which participated in the Shanghai massacre of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members in 1927. After the proclamation...
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    arrest and murder the members of the CCP. This event is called the Shanghai massacre, the April 12 Purge or the April 12 Incident. In the same year, the...
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    and take control. Chiang decided to purge the Communists, massacring thousands in Shanghai. At the same time, other violent conflicts were taking place...
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    that party's Central Committee in January 1924. In 1927, after the Shanghai massacre, he and other high-ranking Communists, including Mao Zedong and Mikhail...
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    commander-in-chief Chiang Kai-shek purged communists and leftists in the "Shanghai massacre", the Wuhan government split from Chiang in what is known as the "Nanjing–Wuhan...
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    number of Communist forces in mid-1927, an event known as the Shanghai massacre. The massacre occurred about halfway through the Northern Expedition, ultimately...
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    scale in Asia. The Shanghai massacre of April 12, 1927 was a violent suppression of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organizations in Shanghai by the military...
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    the Communist Party—most particularly the many victims of the 1927 Shanghai massacre but also including devoted humanitarians during the Chinese Civil...
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  • The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in China. The massacres are grouped for different time periods. Cultural Revolution was launched...
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    orchestrated a violent mass purge of Communists, referred to as the Shanghai Massacre. In 1937, the Kuomintang and the communists formed a new alliance...
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    Chiang Kai-shek occupied Shanghai in April 1927, and began a bloody suppression of suspected communists known as the "Shanghai Massacre". Within several weeks...
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    district of Shanghai. As of the 2020 Chinese census, it had a population of 1,834,258. Jiading was historically a separate polity from Shanghai until it...
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    officially ongoing, the BSS spread its influence into the cultural centers of Shanghai and other major cities that used to be the CC Clique's power base. Blackshirts...
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    parties in Taiwan Kuomintang-Nanjing The event is also known as the Shanghai Massacre of 1927. See Tien-wei Wu, "A Review of the Wuhan Debacle: the Kuomintang-Communist...
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    Kingdoms fame. Bai was the commander of Kuomintang forces in the Shanghai massacre of 1927, where he directed the KMT purge of Communists in the party...
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    in Nanjing. Simultaneously, the Nationalist government enacted the Shanghai massacre and purged members of the CCP in the Kuomintang, effectively ending...
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