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...

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...

have been accused of minimizing or denying the massacre. In August 1937, the Japanese army invaded Shanghai, where they met strong resistance and suffered...

the warlords and foreign imperialist forces, but the 1927 massacre of Communists in Shanghai ordered by Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai-shek forced them into...

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...

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...

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...

Chinese Civil War, begun by the Chinese Communists to counter the Shanghai massacre of 1927 by the Kuomintang. The Kuomintang (KMT) left wing established...

when the Shanghai Municipal Police opened fire on Chinese protesters in Shanghai's International Settlement on May 30, 1925 (the Shanghai massacre of 1925)...

Chinese Communist Party (CCP) under Mao Zedong traced back to KMT's Shanghai Massacre in 1927, which triggered Communist insurgencies such as the Nanchang...