Northern Expedition

1926 Kuomintang (KMT) military campaign

mass arrests and executions of members of the Chinese Communist Party and some leftists of the Kuomintang by the Nationalist government (1927-1928)

1928 conflict between Chinese Nationalist troops and Japanese soldiers in Jinan, Shandong, China

Assassination of Zhang Zuolin in 1928

1927 anti-foreigner riots in Nanking

event in which Wuhan Government leader Wang Jingwei ordered a purge of Communists in July 1927

Chinese armed force, early 1900s

armed force and military government founded by Zhang Zuolin

1926–27 leftist Chinese government