The May 30 Movement: The Chinese People’s Uprising Against the British and Japanese in 1925
07/02/20 • 28 min
Workers, students and merchants in Shanghai take on the British authorities of the International Settlement and Japanese mill owners after protesters are massacred.
Further Reading:
Steve Smith, A Road Is Made: Communism in Shanghai, 1920-1927Some names from this episode:
Li Lisan, Communist leader of the Shanghai General Labor Union
Zhang Xueliang, son of Zhang Zuolin, occupied Shanghai’s Chinese city
Zhang Zuolin, northern warlord
Gregory Voitinsky, Comintern representative in China in 1925
Liu Shaoqi, Communist leader just below Li Lisan in the Shanghai General Labor Union
Liu Hua, Union activist executed for leading role in May 30 Movement
Workers, students and merchants in Shanghai take on the British authorities of the International Settlement and Japanese mill owners after protesters are massacred.
Further Reading:
Steve Smith, A Road Is Made: Communism in Shanghai, 1920-1927Some names from this episode:
Li Lisan, Communist leader of the Shanghai General Labor Union
Zhang Xueliang, son of Zhang Zuolin, occupied Shanghai’s Chinese city
Zhang Zuolin, northern warlord
Gregory Voitinsky, Comintern representative in China in 1925
Liu Shaoqi, Communist leader just below Li Lisan in the Shanghai General Labor Union
Liu Hua, Union activist executed for leading role in May 30 Movement
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People's History of Ideas Podcast - The May 30 Movement: The Chinese People’s Uprising Against the British and Japanese in 1925
Transcript
Welcome to episode 26 of the People’s History of Ideas Podcast.
This week we’re going to talk about the May 30th Movement. This was a major patriotic upsurge against foreign oppression of China, particularly by the Japanese and British, that erupted in 1925 in the wake of the events that we discussed in episode 24, and which ended up forming the immediate political background to the military campaign which the Guomindang would soon be launching, with Soviet aid, to reunify China, cal
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