Guangdong Spring 1925: Revolutionary Warfare Erupts and Workers Shut Down Hong Kong

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 t...