Yu Zisan Incident

Yu Zisan Incident
Part of Chinese Communist Revolution
The dead body of Yu Zisan at the Hangzhou Garrison Headquarters
Native name 于子三事件
TimeOctober 1947- March 1948
LocationHangzhou, China
TypeStudent protests
Cause célèbre

The Yu Zisan Incident,[1] also known as Yu Tse-san Incident,[2] was a series of political events ignited by the death of Yu Zisan, then 23-year-old chairman of the Students' Autonomous Association (SAA) at National Che Kiang University (NCKU) during the Chinese Civil War. Suspected of links with communist factions, Yu was detained on 25 October 1947 at Hangzhou Garrison Headquarters and died there five days later. The Nationalist government asserted that Yu committed suicide fearing conviction, a claim the university did not endorse. His death, widely seen as a government effort to quell student activism, sparked widespread anti-government protests across China in November and December 1947.[1][3][4]

  1. ^ a b He, Jiangfeng (2014). "After Death: A Study of the Yu Zisan Incident, 1947–1948" (PDF). Journal of Chinese Studies. 58: 259–286. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-12-27. Retrieved 2022-05-03 – via Chinese University of Hong Kong.
  2. ^ "Student Tragedy - Facts Concerning The Yu Tse-san Incident". Salient. 11: 9. 1948-07-28. Archived from the original on 2016-11-11. Retrieved 2022-05-03 – via Victoria University of Wellington Library.
  3. ^ 杭州市地名委员会办公室编;马鑫泉等撰稿 (1990). 杭州市地名志. 杭州:浙江人民出版社. p. 451.
  4. ^ Hinton, William (1997-01-01). Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-21040-0. Archived from the original on 2022-05-30. Retrieved 2022-05-18.

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