Zhongshan Warship Incident

Zhongshan Warship Incident

The Zhongshan Warship Incident, or March 20th Incident, on March 20, 1926, involved a suspected plot by Captain Li Zhilong of the warship Zhongshan to kidnap Chiang Kai-shek. It triggered a political struggle between the Communist Party of China and Kuomintang Left wing led by Wang Jingwei against Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang Right wing faction resulting in Chiang becoming the head of the Kuomintang party and commander-in-chief of all the armies for the Northern Expedition.

ee also

*Warlord Era

External links

* [http://www.republicanchina.org/Zhongshan-Warship-Incident.pdf Zhongshan Warship Incident by Ah Xiang]
* [http://www.marx2mao.com/Other/CI60.html THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL AND THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY]
* [http://www.republicanchina.org/tragedy.html#zhongshanjian TRAGEDY OF CHINESE REVOLUTION, Zhongshan Warship Incident]


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