Nov 04 2020 25 mins 30
Where we continue to follow the insurrectionary journey of the Shanghai Communists. Further reading: Steve Smith, A Road Is Made: Communism in Shanghai, 1920-1927 C. Martin Wilbur and Julie Lien-ying How, Missionaries of Revolution: Soviet Advisers and Nationalist China, 1920-1927 Some names from this episode: Chen Duxiu, General Secretary of the Communist Party Sun Chuanfang, Leader of warlord coalition in China’s southeast Zhang Zongchang, Shandong warlord Li Baozhang, the commander of the garrison of warlord troops in Shanghai Zhou Enlai, Communist commissar who left Whampoa to aid the Shanghai military commission Niu Yongjian, Veteran Nationalist operative who came to Shanghai in 1926
