For the Guangzhou Uprisings that occurred during the late Qing Dynasty, see First Guangzhou Uprising and Second Guangzhou Uprising.
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Guangzhou Uprising
Part of Chinese Civil War
Communist casualties
Date
11–13 December 1927[2]
Location
Guangzhou, Republic of China
Result
Government victory; the uprising is crushed but encourages further uprisings across China.
Belligerents
Chinese Communist Party
"Soviet of Workers, Soldiers and Peasant Deputies"[1]
Supported by: Soviet Union Comintern
Republic of China
Commanders and leaders
Zhang Tailei † Ye Ting Ye Jianying Xu Xiangqian Heinz Neumann
Zhang Fakui
Units involved
Red Guard Communist cadet regiment
National Revolutionary Army (NRA)
Strength
20,000 armed workers and soldiers[1]
15,000 soldiers; later reinforced by 5 divisions[1]
Casualties and losses
5,700[1][3]
heavy[1]
Guangzhou Uprising
Traditional Chinese
廣州起義
Simplified Chinese
广州起义
Cantonese Yale
Gwóngjàu Héiyih
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Gǔangzhōu Qǐyì
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Gwóngjàu Héiyih
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Campaigns of the Chinese Civil War
Outline of the Chinese Civil War
First Phase (1927–1937)
Autumn Harvest Uprising
Encirclement campaigns
Long March
Resumption of hostilities (1945–1949)
Operation Beleaguer
Northeast China
Liaoshen
Huaihai
Pingjin
Yangtze River
Shanghai
Hainan
Guningtou
Wanshan
Aftermath
Xinjiang
Kuomintang Islamic insurgency
China–Burma border
Cross-strait conflict
The Guangzhou Uprising, Canton Uprising[1] or Canton Riots of 1927 was a failed communist uprising in the city of Guangzhou (Canton) in southern China.
^ abcdefJowett 2014, p. 27.
^Hsiao 1967, p. 65.
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Zhang Tailei †
Zhang Fakui