To many, that was the immediate significance of the Chinese revolution. For millions of Communists and sympathisers around the world, as well as oppressed masses in the colonies and semi-colonies, the ...
Chiang Kai-shek came to power after the defeat of the Chinese revolution of 1925-7 in which he played the role of chief butcher of the working class. He succeeded in this because of the policy of ...
In 1925 one could read, in the so-called ‘foreign concessions’ of Canton and Shanghai, the following notice outside restaurants – ‘no dogs or Chinese allowed in this restaurant’. Who could carry ...