Nanchang uprising

Nanchang uprising
Part of Chinese Civil War

Location of the Nanchang uprising
Date1 August 1927
Location
Result Nationalist victory[1][2][3]
Belligerents
Commanders and leaders
Nanchang uprising
Traditional Chinese南昌起義
Simplified Chinese南昌起义
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinNánchāng Qǐyì
Wade–GilesNan-ch'ang Ch'i-i
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationNaam4 cheung1 Hei2 yi6
Alternative Chinese name
Traditional Chinese八一起義
Simplified Chinese八一起义
Literal meaning1 August Uprising
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinBāyī Qǐyì
Wade–GilesPa-i Ch'i-i
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationBaat3 yat1 Hei2 yi6

The Nanchang Uprising[a] was the first major Nationalist Party of ChinaChinese Communist Party engagement of the Chinese Civil War, begun by the Chinese Communists to counter the Shanghai massacre of 1927 by the Kuomintang.

The Kuomintang (KMT) left wing established a "Revolutionary Committee" at Nanchang to plant the spark that was expected to ignite a widespread peasant uprising. Deng Yanda, Song Qingling and Zhang Fakui (listed nominally, who later crushed the uprising) were among the political leaders.[4]

Military forces in Nanchang under the leadership of He Long and Zhou Enlai rebelled in an attempt to seize control of the city after the end of the first Kuomintang-Communist alliance. Other important leaders in this event were Zhu De, Ye Ting, and Liu Bocheng.

Communist forces successfully occupied Nanchang and escaped from the siege of Kuomintang forces by 5 August, withdrawing to the Jinggang Mountains of western Jiangxi. 1 August 1927 was later regarded as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the first action fought against the Kuomintang and the National Revolutionary Army (NRA).

  1. ^ Lai, Benjamin; Hook, Adam (2019). The Long March 1934–35: The rise of Mao and the beginning of modern China. Campaign. Vol. 341. Oxford: Osprey. pp. 9, 14. ISBN 978-1-472-83401-0.
  2. ^ Mao, Zedong (December 1936). Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War. Retrieved 2024-07-24 – via Marxists.org.
  3. ^ Sun, Shuyun (2006). The Long March: The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth. Doubleday. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-385-52024-9 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Schwartz, Benjamin, Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao, Harper & Row (New York: 1951), p. 93.


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