General Chiang Kai-shek carried out a purge of Communists from the Republic of China's military and the Kuomintang party, In doing it, Chiang declared martial law in the Republic's capital at Guangzhou essentially effecting a coup.
While a major event, it's surprisingly understudied and the details are murky. At the time, Chiang maintained he was acting first in the face of an impending Communist coup. While its not at all clear that was the case, and many people assert it was a pretext, even the Communist have never had all that much to say about this event.
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