Shanghai massacre turns China communist
May 1927
Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists, allied with Shanghai's Green Gang, massacred their Communist partners in the streets of the city, killing thousands of labor organizers. The first united front collapsed. Mao and his comrades, chased into the countryside, began building a peasant army. The seeds of 1949 were planted in the gutters of Shanghai.
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