Nanchang uprising

Nanchang uprising
Nanchang uprising
Traditional Chinese	南昌起義
Simplified Chinese	南昌起义
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Nánchāng Qǐyì
Wade–Giles	Nan-ch'ang Ch'i-i
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Naam4 cheung1 Hei2 yi6
Alternative Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	八一起義
Simplified Chinese	八一起义
Literal meaning	1 August Uprising
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Bāyī Qǐyì
Wade–Giles	Pa-i Ch'i-i
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Baat3 yat1 Hei2 yi6

Nanchang uprising
	Part of Chinese Civil War
	; Location of the Nanchang uprising
Date	1 August 1927
Location	Nanchang
Result	Nationalist victory
Belligerents
Nationalist government; Right-wing of the Kuomintang; Right-wing of the National Revolutionary Army;	Communist Party; Left-wing of the Kuomintang; Left-wing of the National Revolutionary Army;
Commanders and leaders
Zhu Peide; Chen Jitang; Zhang Fakui;	He Long; Zhou Enlai; Zhu De; Ye Ting; Liu Bocheng; Deng Yanda; Song Qingling;

The Nanchang Uprising^[a] was the first major Nationalist Party of China–Chinese 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).

^ 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.
^ Mao, Zedong (December 1936). Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War. Retrieved 2024-07-24 – via Marxists.org.
^ 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.
^ Schwartz, Benjamin, Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao, Harper & Row (New York: 1951), p. 93.

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[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.

[5] Schwartz, Benjamin, Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao, Harper & Row (New York: 1951), p. 93.

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