Jul 29 2020 24 mins 32
The National Revolutionary Army battles the warlords for supremacy in Guangdong, while the British and French escalate tensions by massacring supporters of a strike which shut down Hong Kong. Further Reading: C. Martin Wilbur and Julie Lien-ying How, Missionaries of Revolution: Soviet Advisers and Nationalist China, 1920-1927 Some names from this episode: Chiang Kai-shek, Japan-trained military officer, close confidant of Sun Yatsen Vasily Blyukher, Soviet general who led military mission to aid Guomindang Zhou Enlai, Communist head of the Whampoa Academy political department Wang Jingwei, Potential heir apparent to Sun Yatsen as leader of Guomindang Liao Zhongkai, Potential heir apparent to Sun Yatsen as leader of Guomindang Hu Hanmin, Potential heir apparent to Sun Yatsen as leader of Guomindang (further to Right than the other two) Mikhail Borodin, Comintern agent and head of Soviet mission to aid the Guomindang Sun Zhongshan/Sun Yatsen, leader of the Guomindang, died in March 1925 Chen Jiongming, Southern warlord, ally and then enemy of Sun Yatsen
