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“Like Taking a Bath in a Toilet” (May and June 1927)
Season 1 Episode 53
The Comintern’s guidance falls short in response to the ongoing massacre of peasants.
Further reading:
C. Martin Wilbur, The Nationalist Revolution in …
5 years, 1 month ago
Mao Tries to Legislate a Peasant Revolution: The Wuhan Land Commission (April to May 1927)
Season 1 Episode 51
Mao’s experience on the Wuhan Guomindang Left government’s Land Commission, with some comparative remarks on land reform in Communist thought.
Further…
5 years, 1 month ago
“An Example of the Chinese Tenant-Peasant’s Life”
Season 1 Episode 52
This episode is an appendix to episode 51, and consists of a booklet written by Mao Zedong describing the life of a tenant-peasant in Hunan. This epi…
5 years, 1 month ago
The Fifth Party Congress and the ‘Better Fewer but Better’ Approach to Summing up a Massacre
Season 1 Episode 50
The Fifth Party Congress of the Communist Party (April 29 to May 9, 1927) decides that the united front is better without Chiang Kai-shek.
Further rea…
5 years, 1 month ago
Rivers of Blood in the Streets of Shanghai: The Massacre of the Communists by the Guomindang Right
Season 1 Episode 49
Chiang Kai-shek’s April 12, 1927 coup against the Communists.
Further reading:
Steve Smith, A Road Is Made: Communism in Shanghai, 1920-1927
Elizabeth P…
5 years, 2 months ago
The Third Armed Uprising in Shanghai
Season 1 Episode 48
On March 21-22, 1927, Shanghai fell to a combination of general strike, armed uprising, and the advance of the National Revolutionary Army.
Further re…
5 years, 2 months ago
The Split in the Guomindang: The Left Government in Wuhan and the Military Headquarters in Nanchang Develop Irreconcilable Differences (January to March 1927)
Season 1 Episode 47
The question of what sort of revolution the Nationalist revolution will be creates a fundamental division within the Guomindang.
Further reading:
C. Ma…
5 years, 3 months ago
Summation, Red Terror, and Frustration: The Aftermath of the Second Armed Uprising in Shanghai (February and March 1927)
Season 1 Episode 46
Summations of the Second Uprising on several different levels; the continuing inability of the Shanghai Regional Committee of the Communist Party to …
5 years, 3 months ago
The Second Armed Uprising in Shanghai (February 1927)
Season 1 Episode 45
Where we continue to follow the insurrectionary journey of the Shanghai Communists.
Further reading:
Steve Smith, A Road Is Made: Communism in Shanghai…
5 years, 4 months ago
From Dog-Beating Squads to the First Armed Uprising: The Shanghai Communists’ Steep Learning Curve in Developing Armed Struggle (1922 to 1926)
Season 1 Episode 44
The bumpy road that the Communist Party took in Shanghai as it developed its capacity to deploy organized violence as a political tactic.
Further read…
5 years, 4 months ago