Wuhan coup

The Wuhan coup was a political shift made on July 15, 1927 by Wang Jingwei towards Chiang Kai-shek, and his Shanghai-based rival in the Kuomintang (KMT).

Wang's faction of the KMT, which supported cooperation with the Chinese Communist Party, had established a capital at Wuhan in early 1927. The Wuhan National Government was opposed by Chiang's National Government, established in Nanjing, a division known as the Ninghan Separation. Following the April 12 Incident, Wang's government broke with the Communists and moved back towards an alliance with Chiang. Trade unions, peasant associations, and other revolutionary organizations were banned, and a massacre of the Communists and other revolutionaries was carried out.

In 1960, Zhou Enlai described the coup as the beginning of the second stage of Chinese Communist Party history, marking the break with Chen Duxiu's "capitulationism".[1]

The events in Wuhan triggered the August 1927 Nanchang Uprising.

References

  1. ↑ Enlai, Zhou, The Communist International and the Chinese Communist Party, July 14 and 15, 1960
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, March 17, 2013. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.