Chinese Civil War

Question 1

Shanghai Massacre?
Begin?
Deaths?

Answer 1

Kai-Shek ordered suppression of Communists: became known as the ‘white terror’

12 April 26 onward

Fenby: 5k to 10k deaths

Question 2

Jonathan Fenby on Shanghai Massacre

Answer 2

“It began a violent power struggle between the left and the right that would take millions of lives in 22 years of national dislocation.”